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President Emeritus James B. Conants new book, The Education of American Teachers, places too much emphasis on the training of teachers and too little on the crucial problem of recruiting them, Theodore R. Sizer, assistant professor of Education, said in an interview yesterday...
Although Conant proposes that teachers be drawn from the top 30 per cent of high school graduates, he gives no suggestions as to how this should be done, Sizer said. He claimed that the teaching profession today is nowhere near Conant's goal: too often teachers come not from the top of the academic ladder but from the bottom...
...Master of Arts in Teaching Program that Sizer directs has made special efforts to recruit good students from Eastern liberal arts colleges with no previous training in education. But Sizer pointed out that The Education of American Teacrers plays down the importance of such "fifth year" programs, and "is actually concerned with the big universities [which give undergraduate training in education]; Indiana, for example, trains more teachers in a year than all the M.A.T. programs in the country." Conant believes that a proper four-year bachelor of arts program--complete with courses in education and practice teaching--should be sufficient...
Moderator Theodore R. Sizer, assistant professor of Education, expressed the view that "if we are going to wait for tastes to be raised through the formal educational system, we're going to wait an awfully long time...
President Conant began the rebuilding program in 1948 with his decision to "save" the Ed School; and in Keppel he found the ideal dean. As Theodore Sizer, director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program, describes him: "he was too young to have made enemies; the he possessed only one degree and that the most appropriate, the Harvard A.B.; he had been trained in Cambridge as an assistant to Dean Buck of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and he was the son of a distinguished scholar and philanthropist. Impeccable he was indeed, and his arrival was timely...