Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very sorry, those of us who love to teach, that we have to devote so much time to the furtherance of our careers and personal lives. But this happens everywhere; and it seems that most of our students are no less self-sacrificing than we, nor do many expect so much selflessness of themselves. I think a more just appraisal than Mr. Alexander's would find large numbers of us doing more in this community than grinding away in Widener. Jackson Bryce Miniprofessor of the Classics, and Resident Tutor in Music, Adams House
...conservative state is becoming more Republican each vear. In this context pro-war liberals like Sen. Fred Harris, co-chairman of Humphrey's pre-convention drive, are about the best McCarthy supporters expect. Moderates should continue to hold the party. In academic centers like Stillwater and Norman, McCarthy generated significant grass-roots organization. In Tulsa and Oklahoma City, liberals tended more to Kennedy, but worked for McCarthy in most cases following the assassination...
...funny about thirty seconds into the first act. The feeble gags swarm around such familiar territories as the human anatomy, drunks, queers, and race (Authors Ray Galton and Alan Simpson even succumb to having a whiteman tell an Indian, "You all look alike to me.") As you might expect, the script is littered with countless unfunny versions of Western cliches (e.g., "Seldom have I heard so many discouraging words...
Critics of the public schools, particularly in urban ghettos, have long argued that many children fail to learn simply because their teachers do not expect them to. That proposition is effectively documented in a new book called Pygmalion in the Classroom (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $4.95). The book tells of an ingenious experiment involving several teachers at a South San Francisco grade school who were deceived into believing that certain of their students had been spotted as "late bloomers." Eight months later, the chil dren's academic abilities showed dramatic improvement...
Rosenthal and Jacobson politely refrain from moralizing, suggesting only that "teachers' expectations of their pupils' performance may serve as self-fulfilling prophecies." But the findings raise some fundamental questions about teacher training. They also cast doubt on the wisdom of assigning children to classes according to presumed ability, which may only mire the lowest groups into self-confining ruts. If children tend to become the kind of students their teachers expect them to be, the obvious need is to raise the teachers' sights. Or, as Eliza Doolittle says in Shaw's Pygmalion, "The difference between...