Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still, the professional teacher does have a place at Harvard, particularly in the instruction of lower level language courses. Graduate students find these courses torturous, and with good reason. In the 1956 report, it was recommended that permanent lecturers be appointed to teach these courses. Just so long as the College is committed to the languages, these basic courses must be taught, and it is obvious that a teacher of considerable training is needed...
While the techniques of the teaching fellow can be improved quite easily, the problem of maintaining even the present level of quality and native ability is quite another matter. In the sciences for example, study grants and industry jobs are awaiting even the mildly promising science student...
While the sciences are having trouble keeping their good men at the teaching fellow. level, the other Departments are first being hurt at the instructor level. The promising Harvard instructor can usually count on getting a higher paying position, often with tenure, at another institution...
...demands placed upon the teaching fellow and upon the professor by the student will, in all likelihood, grow heavier in the next few years. As the level of undergraduate intelligence rises the demand for a deep and more creative teacher will grow stronger. That the level of intelligence is rising is obvious--the class of '56 scored a median of 583 on its Standard Achievement Tests while the median for the class...
...lecture platform aspect of the professor-student relationship was described in General Education in a Free Society as the Olympian level. This lofty level will be improved only when Departments pay more attention to teaching and, more important, when the individual professor makes greater attempt to improve his teaching technique...