Word: sizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, there are a number of University people on the committee, including Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Affairs; John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics; and Theodore Sizer, Dean of the Graduate School of Education...
...conventional class-teaching methods, which may not be suitable to the humanities. "Our school organization," Sizer said, "is governed more by the necessities for the control of the students than for the logic of subject matter or the needs of children. In all probability," he continued, "any step forward will be a radical...
...Sizer also decried the tendency of schools to suppress individuality. He explained that the regimentation and organization of students on the basis of apparent similarities, rather than intellectual and social characteristics, individuality and hinders the teaching of esthetic and ethical values...
Although the report is primarily concerned with teaching on the elementary and secondary levels, Sizer speculated in a telephone interview last night that the report might have "happy side effects" at Harvard...
...Sizer continued that he hopes to stimulate reflection among the Faculty on these problems, but that no finalized opinions had been formulated. He said, "We have not yet brought the strings together and tied them into a knot...