Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professions. Few will admit at the outset that they may not really be interested, are not bright enough, or lack the money for professional training. Probably more students should be steered into the technical track at the beginning. But too often the community college teacher is as prestige-conscious as his students, and tends to shun nonacademic assignments. "Psychologically, there's even more strain on the faculty than on the students," observes Lyman Glenny, associate director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. "The faculty is more given to snobbishness among its liberal arts people...
...sees the junior colleges as paradoxically good at teaching. The universities, he notes, "emphasize research to the exclusion of the teaching function. Undergraduates need the teaching of mature, seasoned and experienced major professors." The junior college-so long scoffed at as inferior (and still generally derided in private college-conscious New England)-often gets the inspiring classroom performers who love to teach and who consider paper-publishing strictly extracurricular. And while the universities have "fragmented and specialized" their liberal arts instruction, Dean Morse says, the field is wide open for the junior college to provide a much-needed "integration...
...various-sized screens, some dropped from the flies, others held aloft by the chorus in a jigsaw pattern. While the words "And you? Are you blind like a herd of cattle?" appeared on one screen, the TV cameras raked the audience and projected their faces onstage in self-conscious closeups...
Tracing the changing role of parents during this century, White explained that Freudian psychology came into vogue in the '30's. Young parents then became extremely conscious that any mistakes in child-rearing would make their children neurotic, he said...
...university education? Most students seem to view their four years or more in the university as the prerequisite to a "degree" and thus to a good job. A B.A. or B.S. degree brings immediate prestige along with the prospect of economic security. In India's status-conscious and economically precarious society, both aspira...