Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Teachers' Union Report cannot be regarded as a divinely inspired panacea, at least two of its suggestions--fixed security of tenure for younger instructors and increased competition in the upper ranks--will go far toward alleviating many problems that now face the profession. In addition to decreasing inter...
In Arrowsmith, his famed novel about the medical profession, Yaleman Sinclair Lewis pilloried pretentious scientists by describing an imaginary and phony temple of science called McGurk Institute on Manhattan's Cedar Street. Arrowsmith was published before the founding of Yale University's Institute of Human Relations, but by...
Sweeping are the indictments against U. S. teachers: 1) they know too little about a) the subjects they teach, b) social conditions, c) children; and 2) they don't like children. Average training of U. S. elementary schoolteachers is less than two years of normal school. Teaching attracts a...
...rapidly being converted into teachers' colleges) and liberal arts colleges. Because the liberal arts colleges expect more of their graduates to enter teaching than any other single profession, liberal arts and teachers' colleges today are deadly competitors. Teachers' colleges are busy awarding points in many professional courses but fail to give their students a broad education. The liberal arts colleges turn out many graduates more interested in scholarship than in the children they are to teach...
The French Government did all that was possible last week for the immediate problem, that of providing food for the half-starved Loyalists. Toward settling the bigger problem, resettling the refugees either in Spain or in some other country, the Loyalist Government made the first step. It issued to the...