Trades and ProfessionsHoughton Mifflin, 1914 - 35 páginas |
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35 PALMER'S Activity is merely aloof from pay Altruistic and egoistic appears in widely become BETTS'S bring called clamor classroom coincidence of interest common stock contribute coöperation CUBBERLEY'S demands dignity doctor eagerness for service EDUCATION egoistic profits exercise expect expert status feel fessional freedom gain glory of going growing brotherhood highest efficiency ideals income join a whole knowledge labor lawyer living mind as regards minister moved by professional needy negative conditions number of professions obliged organized society moves ourselves outrunning the desire payment Plato positive induce possess powers presents a type profes professional and commercial professional spirit appears PROFESSOR pupils raise the salaries regards compensation remuneration scale of salary secure three essential seek Socrates SUZZALLO'S THE TEACHING teaching profession teaching service thought tion tive to-day TRADES AND PROFESSIONS tradesmen tude of mind UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN whole-hearted loyalty widely varying degrees
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Página 28 - GLORY of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with a voice flying by to be lost on an endless sea — Glory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong — Nay, but" she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be.
Página 33 - I am obliged to conclude that the kind of work we do does not make us 32 professional men, but the spirit in which we do it. There is no fixed number of professions. One may be found anywhere, for professionalism is an attitude of mind. Wherever, outrunning the desire for personal profit, we find joy in work, eagerness for service, and a readiness for cooperative progress, there trade has been left behind and a profession entered.
Página 26 - I have not received?" for through union with our fellow teachers we become powerful. Since, then, we cannot each be a whole, let us join a whole, and so attain that dignity, that superiority to our own detached selves, which comes only through whole-hearted loyalty to our profession.
Página 23 - You are here today because as members of the teaching profession you know you cannot do your work well out of your own heads. To a large degree you are dependent on those who are teachers already. Knowledge of our beautiful art has been accumulating from generation to generation and now furnishes the common stock from which we all draw. Each speaks not of 'my* profession, but of 'our' profession, and labors to advance rather it than himself.
Página 15 - Harvard College pays me for doing what I would gladly pay it for allowing me to do. No professional man, then, thinks of giving according to measure. Once engaged, he gives his best, gives his personal interest, himself. His heart is in his work, and for this no equivalent is possible...
Página 25 - And when the wholeness sought by an individual is found in loyal identification of himself with the best tendencies of his profession, it is astonishing what dignity and power become his. The process is most easily traced in the case of the soldier. The loafer of the back street enlists, puts on the uniform, and goes forth a new man, compelling us to wonder how he can be so brave, so ready to risk his life for a cause.
Página 22 - He has merged his individuality with that of others and now belongs to a brotherhood which possesses a common stock of knowledge, common purposes, common standards, which are continually growing and to which each member of the brotherhood is expected to conform and contribute.
Página 23 - ... plainly indicating that he who deserves to be called such is no longer a merely individual person. He has merged his individuality with that of others and now belongs to a troop, a company, a brotherhood...
Página 25 - There is a great saying of Goethe's, "Be a whole, or join a whole." The first half of it is a mere counsel of perfection which does not regard possibilities. . . . It is, therefore, perpetually important to bear the second clause in mind, "Join a whole.