...would be more to the point. Fine buildings do not of themselves make fine schools. The old saying that Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a pupil on the other end constituted a university is entirely out of date in our jaded civilization. Things must be more...

...have been a dullard or black sheep among them. If — as some wit says — to have a great instructor on one end of a log, and a pupil on the other, makes a university, then Anne Bradstreet had, in the companionships of her life, all that school or...

...have been a dullard or black sheep among them. If — as some wit says — to have a great instructor on one end of a log, and a pupil on the other, makes a university, then Anne Bradstreet had, in the companionships of her life, all that school or...

...excellent, and still we may fail to find there a good school. Garfield said of his old teacher that Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a pupil on the other made the best kind of college. This indicates an essential factor other than the physical equipment....

...conditions must exist. Even then, they will not teach alone. Ciarfield said of his old teacher that Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a pupil on the other made the best kind of a college. The rural teacher must put into practice in just so far as is possible...

...Schools, on this point, "If it be true that the ideal school consists of a teacher with the spirit of a Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a pupil on the other, such a school is made far better still when the pupil, in a given period of time, is enabled to have...

...recreation. This type of teaching goes back to ancient days when some teachers with great ability could sit end and do fairly good teaching. With the low salaries prevalent in this area, that kind of teacher...