Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...crowded together, without regard to health, as though students were so many sheep. This may be endurable in some rooms, but in University, especially U. E. R., it is too much for instructors to demand or for students to submit to. Admirable as is this perseverance with which a teacher is willing to subject himself to a temperature of 98 degrees rather than get behindhand in his course, we doubt the right to impose his zeal upon a large number of young men, in such a manner as to endanger their health...
...attended, and carried the example of that school into his actions in after life. The same is true of the universities that sprang up at the end of the Middle Ages, and of the various schools of art all over the continent of Europe. The reputation of one great teacher was sufficient to draw to Bologna or Padua students from the semi-barbarous Poland or the far-distant England. The genius of Titian made Venice the resort of his many admirers and pupils, in the same way that Michelangelo was the centre of art in Florence and Rome...
...first element of a good teacher should be - after his competency to teach - that he takes a vivid interest in those he is to instruct. He should attempt to know them more than superficially, and to understand their peculiarities and ability, in order to make his instruction as beneficial as possible to each individual. For students cannot all be run through the same mould, like bullets, but allowance must be made for individual taste and proficiency...