Word: methods
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What he suggests is a method for organizational renewal, but he admits that an organization's policymakers must take the initiative and make renewal possible. Therein lies the problem, for by discriminatory hiring and promotion policies, inept men have perpetuated and advanced mediocrity. Those who should best understand the need for renewal will be the very ones who will fight it. Good luck to Secretary Gardner; he's going to need...
...congregations, the author adds, seminaries are in many ways still helping students prepare "for a ministry to whatever is left of small town society." Although today's sophisticated laymen expect something more from their pastors than dogmatic, take-it-or-leave-it preaching, Feilding says that "the teaching method honored in the school was the lecture, so the graduate not unnaturally sets out upon his ministry lecturing people...
...room it would fit). But there is no such justification for those Euclid stairs; even as a literary joke, they are not worth the floor space they occupy, and someone ought to have the energy to say so. George Segal's plaster figures, produced by the ostensibly simple method of wrapping a subject in plaster-soaked rags, are unaccountably melancholy and powerful. Why? Modern esthetics sayeth...
...implemented in a program of year-long integrated courses, which could be passed by a comprehensive examination or passed out of in initial placement tests. Members of the College faculty devoted themselves to the preparation of the syllabi for these unique courses. Hutchins planned for an emphasis on method rather than content so that the student would develop, with the professor, a technique of critical analysis rather than a list of memorized facts. A Humanities course would not attempt to familiarize students with a wide historical range of "the greats" of literature or art. Instead, a class would probe...
...emphasis was obviously also on independent learning, for the student was expected to continue his education indefinitely, rediscovering the method and not the content of his courses. This was the spirit of Hutchins' "Chicago plan," at work in the university until 1954 when it was modified to allow for four years of high school education and to require half of the college courses to be in a specialized field. In the other half, the basic schema of liberal education remains...