Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Because of the high cost of living, there is a disastrous lack of teachers for the schools of the country. Six hundred thousand teachers are needed in the United States to teach the 20,000,000 pupils in our schools, and 100,000 new positions are open every year; yet the teacher-training institutions of the country do not turn out more than 25,000 graduates to fill them...
...purpose of this Graduate School of Education will be to train both the inexperienced students intending to teach and experienced teachers who wish professional improvement. Its most advanced students will be candidates for the Doctor's Degree in Education and will take posts as city, school, or state superintendents, principals of public and private schools, normal school teachers, and college teachers of education. The Division of Education has already trained considerable numbers of such students, and has sent out, since 1905, 18 students who have secured the Doctor's degree in preparation for school work...
...consider that it is highly advisable that, preferably as a branch of universal training, the Government provide aviation fields at the various colleges. If they cannot give practice in actual flying, they can at least teach the theory of flight and the construction of airplanes...
...suggestion to teach aeronautical theory in our universities is strongly to the point. Lieut, Sir Arthur Brown of the Royal Air Force, responsible for this piece of good counsel, must have noticed the pitifully small scale of our flying service, compared with that of England. Perhaps our slow progress at present deserves excuse, because other far reaching problems confront the Government in the form of labor questions. But in the near future we are likely to see the formation by Congress of a special Department of Aeronautics. A bill to that effect is before the Senate now. The new department...
...education ought to teach him not to seek for the things that will entertain or interest him, and avoid others; but to take an interest in, and throw his whole force into, whatever it is best...