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...this pedestrian production, all that is least attractive in Brecht becomes dismayingly visible. He is a classroom martinet using the stage as a blackboard for his highly debatable theorems. He is forever barking out class-conscious slogans at what he regards as an inattentive crew of playgoing idiots. The Teutonic condescension of the man finally becomes as irritating as it is boring. Inspired direction can mask the defects of monumental didacticism, the preachiness of a Shaw without wit. This Director Vance fails to do. In Houston right now, the playhouse is the thing...
...grateful to TIME and Albert Shanker [Sept. 20] for telling us what is wrong with our public schools: "You walk into a classroom and you see the same teacher and the same blackboard you saw 20 years ago." Does this also apply to the same Professor Kittredge at the same old lectern at Harvard or to the same Professor Baker at the same old drama workshop at Yale in years past? When should a teacher be thrown on the scrap heap? Speaking as a teacher who is standing at the same old blackboard for the ninth year...
...rope," one boy scolded. Ernstoff explains: "We've got to humanize ourselves. Black kids are cynical about any white person's caring for them, and little by little, through affection and honesty, we've got to break that down." He repeatedly makes deliberate mistakes on the blackboard, enticing his pupils to spot them. "Some of these kids learn not to question white people. They develop a kind of slave mentality and I want them to talk back." He winces when they are asked to describe their neighborhoods and respond with what they think is wanted: adjectives such...
Measure of Merit. Shanker concedes that there are bad teachers in the system and insists that his union is as interested in improving standards as anyone else. "You walk into a classroom," he says, "and you see the same teacher and the same blackboard you saw 20 years ago." But this, he says, happens because teachers "have been castrated," and the way to improve them is to give them more power. "Teachers are no longer willing to be supervised by people who have less professional competence than they...
Chem S-20 schedules lectures 9-11 am. every weekday. These meetings quickly degenerate to excercises in digital dexterity. The chemical symbolization washes over the blackboard with the regularity of the tides. While the dissemination of information in any other course is cyclical, some parts being decidedly less irrelevant than others, Chem 20 ebbs and flows at perpetual middle tide. It make sense to record all or nothing. For the conscientious student, Chem 20 is the university's only three-notebook course. For others Chem 20 turns into a seance. They stare entranced...