Word: teaching
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...Tuskegee Institute is to train the young Southern Negroes as intelligent and capable farmers and artisans, and to teach them to regain the industrial supremacy which in their ignorance they lost after the war. It is in this effort to raise the industrial status, and with it the mental and moral conditions of the negro race, that the Institute appeals for the co-operation and aid of those who regard the interests of the black people and the interests of the whole country, which for good or evil, must be indissolubly intertwined with them...
Another comment on the "new fashioned education" concerns what is expected of teachers. The value that is set on text-books induce teacher to give up a great part of their time to writing. Dean Briggs regards this value as overrated. The first duty of the teacher is to teach, writing should be a secondary affair, and not something on which to estimate an instructors worth, as the new education seems to do. By encouraging independent writing and research, it is possible that we have been unfitting the teachers, as teachers, for the student...
...series of courses in natural history will be given by Harvard men during July at Bayville, Lineken Bay, Maine. The object of the work will be to teach the elements of natural history by observation in the field and laboratory under trained observers, and to furnish opportunity for more extended work...
...which its life like description moves. "At the House of the Countess," by F. Watson '02, is unusually well done, with the exception of the last part, which seems hasty, and makes one regret that the ending, however good in conception, was not better handled. "With a Lesson to Teach," by M. Bartlett '01, is full of originality, and, with the exception of a few phrases, is well told. It has the merit of leaving the very obvious lesson to the reader without thrusting it upon him. The last story, "The Break at Sleary's," by J. C. Grew...
...characteristic of Professor Dunbar that he hesitated to accept the chair of Political Economy on the ground that he did not know the subject well enough to teach it successfully; but the appointing power knew him better than he knew himself. At the time of his appointment he was not, indeed, the profound and widely read scholar that he afterwards became; but he had the temperament of a scholar, and the will to succeed in whatever he undertook. He had, more-over, the training of a man of affaires. His practical experience as editor of a metropolitan journal...