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The Return of the Teacher
Young, Stark | September 7, 1918 issue

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Just when knowledge began to be divided into subjects would be hard to say. The science natural to intelligence would always grope towards arrangement, towards definition and classification, but the fashion of putting the stress as much on the boundary as on the content, on the jealously accented limitation, is fairly recent. Certainly no one thought of the old Oxford or Harvard or Virginia as homes of registered specialists. Specialization, administration, and the so-called scholarship concern here only as they tend to separate the teacher from his teaching. The stress laid on specialization has helped to limit the average teacher's range and scope of learning.

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EDUCATION; EXPERTISE; TEACHING; LEARNING; LEARNING & scholarship; SPECIALISTS
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