Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important than the physical limitations is what Terry describes as "a strong feeling that we want to remain a "small school." The cause of this feeling is a little hard to define, for it stems from a variety of sources. One of the advantages of the small school might seem to be the low faculty-student ratio (about one to eight this year). But this is not much different from many good, much larger schools, like Exeter, whose faculty-student ratio is almost the same as Middlesex...
...proper teaching of science is probably the greatest problem before American secondary education. Yet the schools must not only teach more physics and chemistry, but should also face the issue of the isolation of science--make science and scientists seem relevant to the citizen, and indeed make citizenship seem relevant to the scientist and bring him into the community...
Secondary education in the South is now "mediocre, but getting better," according to one high school principal in Atlanta. In terms of national averages, Southern educational figures seem dangerously low because of the large undeveloped rural territory. Teachers come from poor educational backgrounds, they receive low wages, and many have never been out of the South. Most of the buildings are antiquated, and above all, the students--to say the least--do not have an overwhelming interest in academic subjects. Consequently, many statistics do not present favorable pictures...
...system will arise and drown the cries for no schools at all if they have to be integrated, or for a ridiculous private school system now existing as laws in Georgia and Virginia. There is a deep desire for improvement in the South, though the rate of progress must seem unbelievably slow and very characteristically Southern to outsiders. But the roots are there; they merely have to grow. The South will not remain in a state of suspended stagnation, but must eventually rise to better standards of education. The wheels have already begun to turn; they only need more acceleration...
...strong prejudices seem to have set themselves deep in American attitudes towards education: First, demands for equal rights often fail to recognize unequal talents--many complain that to select certain gifted students for special instruction violates the democratic principle. Secondly, American emphasis on material success measured in terms of financial profit scorns the academic world as largely useless, except in its strictly vocational manifestations...