Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Cornell University, one of the institutions to benefit from the Federal Land Grant Act of 1862 which contributed a permanent fund to its endowment, support, and maintenance provided that the university "teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics," has ever since its founding included a compulsory course in military science and tactics in its curriculum...
...real question raised by Dr. Flexner's proposals is not whether we shall teach Latin but whether we shall teach anything which will give the pupils something beyond the practical as popularly conceived...
...help us on the road. For all have future scholars they will only serve to waste the energy which might have been thrown into the direct study of Rome herself, of the splendor of her institutions, and the greatness of her sons. By all means let us continue to teach Latin in American schools, but let us not force it on those who might utilize their time to a greater advantage in other ways...
...great misfortune is that we cannot keep two things in mind at once. We must educate for life. Very well. We must teach--the money making, livelihood-earning vocations. Good. But can a man or woman live by broad alone...
...Another misfortune is that when a controversy has taken on a certain form it is impossible for us to get outside the presuppositions of that form. Dr. Flexner says: 'Teach science and practical craftsmanship.' We immediately take for granted that this means no Latin. Straightway the representatives of the classics take the stage as Dr. Flexner's principal opponent...