Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American educators can concern themselves not only with the problem of whether Russia will build the better mousetrap, but, if the Russians do, will our world beat a path to their door...
Secondary education in the United States has always been infected with the so-called "democratic spirit," in both its good and its bad aspects. Although concern for the common man led America to institute one of the first universal public school systems in the world, quantity has unusually gotten the best of quality in the public concern...
...fact is that the only reason for this concern with improving American education has come out of a threat to our survival. Without this, the problem of increased intellectual activity for its own sake would not be a very pressing problem, nor would anything else, for that matter...
While the education of ministers was the College's immediate concern, the advancement and perpetuation of learning remained its ultimate goal. Colonial scholars regarded the English universities as a prototype to be emulated in all respects, and their standards for a liberal education became Harvard's standards for educating New England youth...
...only is teaching among the three lowest paid professions in the United States (bedfellowing with journalists and clergymen), but the pay scale is antiquated and detrimental. Teacher's salaries still increase on the basis of years of service, not talent, initiative, or accomplishment. In every industry or business concern anywhere in the nation, talented and hard-working people are rewarded on the basis of their initiative, not their tenure. Only teaching maintains this deadening idiosyncrasy...