Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instituting a math requirement would assume that Harvard's influence in elevating high-school standards is quite significant. Such an assumption does not seem well-grounded; for the schools which would respond by directing their college prospects to take the courses Harvard demands are probably those schools who now teach the most mathematics anyway. But the rural, Western and Southern schools which offer only a curricular minimum are unlikely to change to meet Harvard's demands. If Harvard should impose a math requirement, it would cut itself off from much good material...
...College next year. Note taking is hard for her; lectures in person are faster than by radio. The novelty of having other students to talk with is pleasant, although Rosetta is not sure she likes the clamor of bustling (pop. 210,000) Christchurch. Her goal: to prepare correspondence courses, teach arts and crafts for the same radio school that gave her an education during the lonely years at Mount Turiwhate...
Late in life Beethoven declared that the one old master who might still teach him was Handel. Cezanne owed much to Poussin. But Cezanne's work resembles Poussin no more than late Beethoven resembles Handel. What these men acquired were the deepest lessons of the past. They learned the inner architecture of their field...
...years before the U.S. Constitution was ratified, has "excited in us a painful anxiety." To allay the anxiety and cure the neglect, the 26-year-old Phillips persuaded his father and uncle to make a gift of lands and cash for the establishment of a school to teach boys "English and Latin Grammar, Writing. Arithmetic, and those Sciences, wherein they are commonly taught, but more especially to learn them the great end and real business of living...
McDonald noted that the Loan Act specifies some preference for students who intend to teach in secondary schools or who have especially strong preparation in science, mathematics, engineering, or a modern foreign language...