Word: sizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dean Sizer of the School of Education, in his recent call for federal aid to private preparatory schools, made an assumption which the world of 1967 denies: that such institutions serve any real educational purpose...
Speaking at the annual meeting of the National Association of Independent Schools in New York, Sizer said as good a case can be made for government support of private schools like Exeter as it can for government support of private schools like Exeter as it can for government support of private universities like Harvard...
Trustees of the "independent" schools shouldn't be any more frightened of public funds than university trustees, Sizer argued. "Arrogantly autonomous Harvard derives over 40 per cent of its budget from the federal government," he pointed out, "and while constant battle is waged to retain old Dame Cambridge's virginity I think it's yet intact...
...independent" schools' main problem, Sizer said, is that the salaries of public school teachers are rapidly increasing...
...schools set up "a distinct hierachy among teachers" in which a few top men -- like senior professors -- would earn the highest salary (perhaps $15,000). They would be responsible for training younger teachers, a job in which schools of education should have only a secondary role, he said. Sizer also briefly attacked much of what is taught in "independent" schools (and in others) as "irrelevant." The time spent in such traditional subjects as English instruction should be slashed to make way for new ones, such as Far Eastern history, he urged...