Word: pedagoguese
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There is a further important way in which he has served the College. "Striking freedom of the mind with the first of patriotism is an old and ugly subtlety," as a recent candidate for public office put it, but it has seldom been so widespread as now. Yet, a number...
Your April 13 summarization "The Danger Signals" paints our educators as Caspar Milquetoasts who are afraid of their own shadows. One of the prerequisites of the teaching profession used to be moral courage; another used to be intellectual honesty . . . Marxists can have moral courage, as the victims of Stalinist purges...
When Fair said lack of tutors in two of the entries was another reason for the closing, Gregg countered that "tutors are supposed to be pedagogues, not Pinkertons."
But even more imposing is his present job. As Chairman of the Committee on General Education, Rhinelander calls administrative signals for a program that numbered 6,500 students last year. Lesser jobs have buried pedagogues under mountains of memos, but Rhinelander is determined to remain primarily a teacher. He will...
"The result of all this is that a wet hand of fear rests on the heart of every non-professional writer who merely has a lot of important knowledge to communicate ... It is always a comfort to him if he can fit himself into some system, such as that of...