Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Ike went back to the farmhouse for a long weekend and a longtime love. With General Alfred Gruenther, NATO Supreme Commander and famed expert on the ancient military art of bridge-playing, Ike rounded up Neighbor George E. Allen and Dr. Snyder, and sat down at last to his first postcoronary foursome...
...like as a whole? Last week, in a special report published by the National Science Foundation. Nicholas DeWitt of Harvard's Russian Research Center gave as definitive an answer as anyone has given thus far. From Soviet statistics and publications, and from tales of refugees and foreign observers. Expert DeWitt has pieced together a bleak picture of a onesided education that is wholly in the service of the state...
...started it managed to survive for graduation. But the big difference between U.S. and Soviet education is a matter of emphasis. Foreign languages and geography get far more attention in the U.S.S.R., and 41% of the entire upper-grade curriculum is devoted to mathematics and science. This, says Expert DeWitt, is a "distinctive feature of Soviet secondary education...
...keeps for at least three years. Once this ordeal is over, a few students are allowed to take advanced work leading to a candidate degree or eventually to a doctorate. As in his undergraduate days, each student must defend his thesis in public, and many of these theses, says Expert DeWitt, are of high caliber. But the quality varies, largely because of pressure from the government for practical and applied research. "A dissertation for the doctor of science degree on the design of depth pumps for oil wells is of questionable scientific value, and the mediocrity of a candidate degree...
...long run, this may be bad education, but it is giving Russia just the immediate advantage it seems to want. Its supply of trained manpower in science and engineering is now either equal to that of the U.S., or in some fields slightly better. "The Soviet effort," says Expert DeWitt, "continues. Our own policies in the field of education and in regard to specialized manpower resources will decide whether within the next decade or so the scales will be tipped off balance...