Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposed to these sinister agents of the enemy, but we are also opposed to the traditionalist, who insists the schools exist solely for the gifted minority who will go on to college. These are the classroom martinets who think of their students as buckets into which they must pour a predetermined number of facts...
...intensity of passions on both sides of this schism has been such that those who wish to have a real impact on public education must avoid the controversy completely, couching their suggestions in practical rather than ideological terms. Such is the form of the Conant Report...
...perhaps surprising that his recommendations should be more practical than those of a professional man of affairs such as Admiral Rickover. Unfortunately, the builder of the atomic submarine seems to have thought more about the demands which reality places upon America than about the equipment with which we must meet this crisis. He sees very clearly that we are at the brink of disaster, that the Sputnik was not merely a fluke, and that unless a revolution takes place, our economic and technical advantage over the Soviets will soon be a matter of history. But he is perhaps overly optimistic...
...Such first hand experience with actual science is necessary for any educated person," Henry D. Aiken, professor of Philosophy, countered. Aiken supported the report's conclusion that General Education in the natural sciences must include detailed knowledge of some particular science...
...whole problem of establishing Natural Science courses is the affair of those who must conduct them, Stephen Gilman, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, maintained. "They are mature, sensible men who should be left alone to do what they think best...