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...expert. Donald Agnew, specialist in Negro education for the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, says that, although "I hate to talk about it, since our organization has worked for years to raise standards," he que tions "the quality of instruction that Negro teachers have received and can impart." At the same time, John Griffin of the Southern Education Foundation points out that "Negroes have no corner on the incompetence market." In fact, well-educated Southern Negroes have long gone into teaching for lack of other opportunities. Florida has based some of its dismissals on National Teacher Examination scores...
...professor naturally wants to improve the girl's grasp of fundamental principles, to insure that the knowledge she acquires will be a permanent protection against the chaos of experience. But his pupil is wholly deficient in logical capacity. The professor's efforts to impart the elements of mathematics only succeed in confusing her and stifling her enthusiasm. The girl is unable to go beyond simple addition, in spite of the professor's warning that all of life, philosophy and civilization consist in being able to disintegrate as well as integrate. If she can perform other operations (such...
...feel the traditionalists have the best case. Admittedly the ratio system has worked well in the Natural Sciences. But this reflects the peculiarities of that area, not the inherent advantages of the system. In the sciences, general education means training in the methods of science. Often departmental courses can impart, as well as can Gen Ed courses, an understanding of the scientific method...
Manufacturers make synthetics in various thicknesses equivalent to those of watercolors, gouache and oils. Matte and gloss media are available to impart every kind of surface finish, from chalky pastels and flat tempera to buttery oil glazes. Plastics can be thickened to print graphics or molded into free-standing sculpture. Moreover, under laboratory tests equivalent to 45 years of direct sunlight, the new paints have proved virtually fadeproof. Indeed, like every other technical innovation in the history of painting, the synthetics may well lead artists to explore, experiment and discover new forms and techniques as enduring as the paints themselves...
...Courtroom drama," that trite darling of novelists and dramatists, has authentic origins: civilized mankind's transforming willingness to submit its disputes to third parties for impartial judgment. The ritual can impart strength to the weak, modesty to the immodest, and equality to the powerful and wealthy...