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Word: cuninggim (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incompetent teachers. Sociology Professor Robert Nisbet of the University of California's Riverside campus calls tenure "a blend of mystique and the sacred, as nearly impregnable a form of differential privilege as the mind of man has ever devised." The teaching profession, says the Danforth Foundation's Merrimon Cuninggim, "is the only profession that has no definition for malpractice." Even mental deterioration is no cause for dismissal, and, says Nisbet, "a single man can cause intellectual blight year after year" in students and faculty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: To Profess with a Passion | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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