Word: sizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sizer made the statement in his annual report to President Pusey, in which he discussed ways of improving the quality of teaching and teaching methods...
...idea that the Supreme Court's "stricture against teaching 'religion' in The public schools is a stricture against teaching any sort of values." But, Sizer said, values are taught "willy-nilly" in the education process anyway...
...weakest part of the curriculum in the public and private schools is the humanities," according to Theodore R. Sizer, Dean of the Graduate School of Education...
...lack of "fundamental ferment in the humanities" at most universities. According to Sizer, "too much university scholarship in the humanities is sterile and out of touch with our culture...
...obvious differences between the official culture and the mass culture." Sizer called for limiting the "barbarism caused by indiscriminate and tasteless overexposure" to the humanities, and for an attempt to relate children's real experiences to Western values...