Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOOD prep schools have in common one audacious aim: to be parent and teacher at the same time. To handle the parental role, they stress sports, discipline, manners, religion and democracy. To teach well, they accent intimate learning in classes that average nine students compared with the public school average of 28. Avoiding distractions, they generally offer spartan living on spacious, tradition-encrusted campuses, most of them in the Northeast. Despite these uniform methods, the schools that operate 24 hours a day come in all shapes and sizes...
...increasingly fierce specialization of the graduate schools"-which eventually draw 75% of Yale College graduates-he insists on maintaining the breadth of liberal arts. "We have no time for the transient or the immediately applicable and quickly advantageous," he once explained to a gathering of Yale parents. "We aim to give the student the solid and permanent studies of man's concerns, a long view of man's life and a vision of the greatness to which he may aspire...
...company's reputation so that it will be invited to supply talent and material and to bid on jobs. In addition, there are ''institutional" ads-such as the Container Corp. of America's series on "Great Ideas of Western Man''-by which companies aim to create an aura of progressiveness in order to recruit customers, stockholders or employees...
...Will government programs be adequately sensitive to the fact that good education and good research require steadfast concern for standards of excellence, and that neither will be achieved if it becomes a guiding aim of government programs to keep everyone happy and to avoid hard choices...
...Will government programs be adequately sensitive to the fact that good education and good research require steadfast concern for standards of excellence, and that neither will be achieved if it becomes a guiding aim of government programs to keep everyone happy and to avoid hard choices...