Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the classroom, professors defend their right to take an analytical approach to religion and its impact upon the world, not to defend religion or to proselytize. Some typical Faculty attitudes toward the teaching of religion...
George A. Buttrick, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Preacher to the University--"...a university is for understanding. Our concern (in the classroom) is not to say whether you should believe or not believe...
...just wanted to demonstrate, a point of advocacy," Lon L. Fuller, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, lamented recently about a heated debate his classroom remarks have initiated in, of all places, Sports Illustrated...
...weeks ago, Sports Illustrated picked up Fuller's classroom discussions on the subject of subterfuge in sports. Fuller defended the baseball catcher's "ethically acceptable" act of pulling a pitch into the strike zone, but condemned the practice of feigning injuries in football contests...
Repetition enters into the classroom as well as into the language lab. After all, the exponents of the oral-aural method state, a child learns his language habits only through constant exposure to and practice of a single tongue. The child does not think consciously, "Does this preposition take the dative case? Is the definite article placed before or after the past participle? What is the gender of this noun?" Rather, he learns almost instinctively what is correct and what is not. And it is precisely this sort of semi-innate knowledge which the direct method seeks to inculate...