Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole, however, the present combination of age and youth is satisfactory, the survey said. "The teaching fellow brings qualities to the classroom that the older faculty member cannot bring. Experience is excellent, but enthusiasm and energy constitute excellence also...
...only training school for air-traffic-control operators, currently runs 2,000 men a year through an eight-week cram course. After a brief introduction to basic operating procedures, the students are put to work controlling traffic on a scale model of Will Rogers airport laid out on a classroom floor. The instructors set up traffic problems with model airplanes, make them more complex as the students catch on, occasionally throw in a real crisis...
...several devices we use to accomplish this. For one thing we use what we call 'hero and heroine worship': if someone from the school got into a good college or became a doctor or a lawyer, we tell the kids about it and put his picture in the classroom. Then the kids can say 'see, somebody from our school made it' and they begin to think that maybe they can make...
...Freshman Seminars, these programs would not be given within departments, but would be free to cross department lines if necessary. Sophomores with interests in either humanities, natural sciences, or social sciences, who feel the pinch of course restrictions would thus have some practical means of supplementing their lecture and classroom work with a supervised plan of independent study. Phillip G. Schrag...
...short, what the Liberal Union's stand amounts to is a hidden infringement on academic freedom. When it asks for Administrative action against ideas presented in a classroom, the Liberal Union--like the wolf in sheep's clothing--looks disturbingly like the Veritas Foundation...