Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because I teach Russian history at Harvard and because I am in charge of the Regional Studies Program on the Soviet Union, I should like to add that I entirely disagree with my namesake on the issue involved. I believe that members of the Communist Party should not (repeat NOT) be employed as teachers in American universities. Robert Lee Wolff '36 Associate Professor of History
...head of the school is Mrs. Jessie R. Turtle. Her staff consists of four trained child specialists, who teach the children such skills as weaving and painting, and supervise them at play. All are paid employees; they like their work and consider it a privilege to be associated with the school...
Explains Dr. Jones: "A great many educators have felt for a long time that emphasis on teaching techniques has gotten out of hand in this country. Undergraduates who plan to enter the teaching profession have been spending an increasing amount of their time on the sort of subjects that are facetiously referred to as 'blackboard engineering.' . . . In some cases they spent more time studying teaching methods than they did studying the subject they would be called upon to teach...
Concluded Highet: "I want us to teach that even these 'classic' men were subject to human conflicts and pressures. I don't want to debunk them . . . I don't believe in the late-'20s school of showing Jefferson as a bungling dilettante, or Washington as an ignorant country squire. That's all nonsense. These were all great men, greater than you or I. But I want to keep them from being statues. That's what they've become from bad teaching...
...witty dean (1925-45) and professor of languages and literature (1905-45) helped bring up three generations of Princeton men; of a heart attack; in Pennsylvania Station, Manhattan. At 20, he left his native Michigan for a fling in Paris as an aspiring poet, soon returned home to teach, was brought to Princeton by President Woodrow Wilson in 1905 as one of the university's first group of preceptors. A devoted student of the classics and a student of the noisy world outside the college gates, he never gave up the fight against excessive nationalism, "money madness" and snobbery...