Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineered the establishment of a graduate school of arts and sciences, again with the aid of the Corporation and against the firm opposition of professors who feared their own incompetence to teach on the graduate level...
...long as our teachers regard their work as simply giving so many courses for undergraduates, Eliot said, "we shall never have firstclass instruction here. If they have to teach graduates as well as undergraduates, they will regard their subjects as infinite, and keep up that constant investigation which is necessary for firstclass teaching...
...stated his own position most clearly in his 1916-17 Report: "The teaching by the professor in his classroom on the subjects within the scope of his chair ought to be absolutely free. He must teach the truth as he has found it and sees it. This is the primary condition of academic freedom, and any violation of it endangers intellectual progress...
...what is less [important] in education." It has completely failed to realize that the best education for a changing world is "a thorough grounding in those things which [are] least likely to change." In short: "There is no dearth of facts, of principles, or higher truths for us to teach and to learn. Let us get on with the learning and the teaching...
...Wichita canvas owes much to Edgar Degas, the woman-hating perfectionist who was Mary Cassatt's closest male friend. "I would not have admitted," he exclaimed when first he saw her work, "that a woman could draw as well as that." He proceeded to teach her a good deal of his own almost cruelly precise draftsmanship, which has never been surpassed for subtlety. Other impressionists-Manet, Monet et al. -followed Degas' lead in drawing Painter Cassatt into their sunlit circle. From them she got the habit of subordinating form, space and texture to the pure play of light...