Word: berges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Monro, Elliot J. Berg, instructor in Economics, and Paul E. Sigmund, instructor in Government, discussed in a wide-ranging two-hour session the genesis of the "peace corps" idea, the needs of the emergent nations that would be served, and the specific pilot program under consideration at the University...
...youth service program, according a Berg, must concentrate on the schools rather than on construction or manual labor. Africa needs "teachers, not doers," he emphasized, and the secondary schools, which provide the "crucial layer of people with intermediate skills," are the great bottleneck in the continent's development...
Speakers will be Dean Monro, discussing "The University's Role in a Youth Service Program," Eliott J. Berg, instructor in Economics, talking on "Manpower Needs and Living Conditions in Africa," and Paul E. Sigmund, Senior Tutor of Quincy House, reviewing plans and prospects for a Youth Service Program...
...earth, then only shall ye have peace"-so advises a wise saying. But what precisely can U.S. college graduates do in Tanganyika, Indonesia, Argentina? In the private "Crossroads Africa" program last summer, students built schools, did manual labor. Senator Kennedy has mentioned building dams. But as Elliot Berg an economist at Harvard told the conference, Africa has no shortage of manpower. The problem is training and organizing the Africans to do the job themselves. So the need is for teachers-teachers of languages, mechanics and science, of public health and child care, of agricultural methods. Putting up a school-house...
...many countries, said Berg, the chief need is teachers for secondary schools, to train stenographers, clerks, foremen, "the non-commissioned officers of modern society." But Berg warned that African secondary education, though now reaching a small group, is "infinitely better than our own," and that new teachers-for languages, science and mathematics-would in many cases need Masters degrees...