Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early history can rival the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Though every schoolchild knows it, present-day writers are beginning to realize that such heirloom images are fit for more than being children's playthings. English Author David Garnett has rescued Pocahontas from the textbook attic and put her in grown-up clothes. With strict fidelity to historical documents he has made a valiant try at turning a pseudo-fairy tale* into a work of art. From oblivion, a fate worse than death, Pocahontas saved one Englishman; now another, by restoring her to pristine, savage humanity...
...external stimulus and efficient cause, though the upshot is as the spirit listeth. For the Vagabond has been casually reading some minor English poets, men whose names are known to all, their works to none, or whose immortality is frailly linked to a note in a textbook, a piping lyric in an old anthology. The thought came to him that all these men, whom we read now with a bored condescension, were once the laureates of a period or a nation, whose fame was certain. Nearly every poet we admire today had rivals who overpeered him in his own lifetime...
...minutiae of fact. The course would be improved by leaving such rote work to be done outside of class, reserving the lectures and section meetings for consideration of more advanced points, the theories, and the many problems which biology is facing today. Reading assigned in other than the one textbook, in the controversial literature of biology, would be excellent. If, in addition, a few lectures in frank criticism of scientific achievement or in the history of biology were to be given, a genuine advance towards the wanted liberalization would be made...
...were 230 such commonplace errors, in a survey published by the National Council of Teachers of English. Representing 6,000 elementary, high school and college teachers, the National Council cannot enforce its edicts, but by its 21-year-old authority, its surveys and discussions, it has much influence in textbook-making, curriculum-drafting and teaching. For its study of English usage the National Council got 229 judges-authors, linguists, editors, businessmen, teachers. Both studies tended away from "an impossible literary standard'' and towards "the habits of better middle class speech." The English teachers said that they "believe...
...textbook engraving of Christopher Columbus discovering America would excite no special curiosity in most small girls, Victorian or modern. But one blue-eyed, chestnut-haired Philadelphia child gazed at it during the late 1860'sand wondered. What about those red Indians peeping through the forest at the white man? What about their souls...