Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...train so many for the academic world. The greatest influence Harvard can have is in turning out large numbers of teachers. For every teacher trained we produce a multiple of business executives, engineers, statesmen, etc. The teacher in turn, of course, influences the world not only through the classroom but through his writing. A college that contributes a substantial proportion of the outstanding teachers and research men--and obviously the Harvard Ph. D. is going to devote a large part of his time to research even if he is a teacher --this kind of a college will make a unique...
...Communist line became virtually learning by anarchy. Says Hechinger: "Schools were run by student-elected committees. Even elementary school pupils had a voice equal to their teachers. Book learning was discredited. Communist youth leaders not only spied on the teachers but could countermand their orders and free pupils from classroom work. Examinations were labeled the marks of bourgeois reaction. Homework was prohibited...
...most of them make the modern reader wonder why the old man should have been prevented for so long from rattling his dead bones. Today Mark Twain's often irreverent notions about God, Bible and his fellow men seem no more fearsome than a day in a college classroom. By the lights of modern determinist psychology, for instance, there is scarcely anything startling in this statement: "Sometimes a man is ... a born scoundrel-like Stanford White*-and upon him the world lavishes censure and dispraise; but he is only obeying the law of his nature. [The human race...
Cimarron City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Viewers may often get the uncomfortable feeling that they have tuned in Sociology 1, but when the show gets out of the classroom it is a diverting western, and George Montgomery is the most ingratiating of heroes...
...course all upright men are opposed to these sinister agents of the enemy, but we are also opposed to the traditionalist, who insists the schools exist solely for the gifted minority who will go on to college. These are the classroom martinets who think of their students as buckets into which they must pour a predetermined number of facts...