Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process, conservatism has undergone as dramatic a transformation as the evolution of the 175-m.p.h. biplane into the 2,000-m.p.h. rocket aircraft. Through the Committee for Economic Development, the National Planning Association and scores of other groups, businessmen and educators are boldly charting economic and social policies that project conservatism's new look. Increasingly, its prophets are finding the word '"conservatism" inadequate to describe the aims and achievements of present-day capitalism. Eager sponsors have proffered a dozen new labels: capitalism with a conscience, enlightened conservatism, people's capitalism, etc. But still the most widely accepted...
Research along these lines is necessarily slow, for data must be accumulated and evaluated from many different sources. But it is probably fair to say that experiments over the past few years have demonstrated the feasibility of using closed-circuit TV in the teaching process. Although the Education School's four day experiment was too short to reach any definitive conclusion, most observers felt that, with provisions for the control of classroom acoustics (which were very poor) and classroom lighting (which was satisfactory) and certain other technical problems, closed-circuit television has a definite potential for the observation and analysis...
...would seem, therefore, that TV does not appropriately belong in all parts of the educational process. It seems especially apt for those courses which have something to show the student, such as the sciences. But even in these, the necessity for interaction prohibits the use of TV in every part of the course...
...seems fairly obvious, therefore, that discussion must remain an integral part of the educative process. It probably does not make too much difference if a lecture is televised, for there is no verbal interaction between instructor and student, and students in the back rows are apt to get less of the lectures personality than they would over a TV screen anyway...
Educational TV is no panacea, no cure-all for the University world. Rather it is one possible means of meeting expansion problems and increasing the effectiveness of teaching. If used intelligently and without attempting to apply it to the entire educational process, it has great potentialities