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...Profess with a Passion" [May 6] dissects the heart of the matter. I was beginning to think that no one but students realized the disappointment, boredom and frustration caused by the disinterested and incompetent teachers we are faced with daily. These teachers rarely see our tests, do not prepare a lecture in advance, refuse to be bothered answering a student's question (and too often cannot answer it anyway), and have no interest in whether or not the students are actually learning. As a result, the saving and sacrificing to finance a college education often seems worthless...
...lately been dislodged from his old status as the grand panjandrum. In the bestselling Intern, the mysterious Dr. X-who well knew the necessity of shielding himself from his colleagues' vengeance-admitted that doctors learn only by committing "colossal blunders" that sometimes prove fatal. The profession's official and aggressive opposition to medicare marred the doctor's image among many Americans-and raised bothersome questions about how the profession will treat the huge influx of new patients, all of them old people who particularly need human comfort. While most patients profess esteem for their own doctors, people...
...TIME cover story can be done - on a "crash" basis - reported, written and edited in a matter of days - or it may require long gestation. This week's story, built around ten great U.S. teachers, is an example of the second category. "To Profess with a Passion" has been in progress for one year. Last May Associate Editor Ed Magnuson (Minnesota, '50, magna cum laude) and Senior Editor William Forbis (Montana, '39, cum laude) went their separate ways visiting campuses and sitting in on lectures across the U.S. to learn what was afoot in the college classroom...
House of Jargon. Professors who profess with the passion of Athos, Scully and the eight others on TIME'S cover are enjoying new glory on nearly every college and university campus in the U.S., as academic administrators react to complaints that they have neglected teaching. To too many youngsters, it appears that those castles of knowledge they thought they were entering have turned out to be cardboard houses built of professorial jargon, Ph.D. pretentiousness, preoccupation with tenure and personal prestige...
...offering wages 10% to 12% above normal for night shifts. The Atlanta post office has been hiring women to load trucks and trundle small mail carts around the downtown district; in Pittsburgh, Westinghouse has moved women into machine-shop and stockroom jobs normally held by men. Many companies profess that a return to the days of Rosie the Riveter is not far away...