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Theodore R. Sizer, dean of the Faculty of Education, and Dr. Edgar Haber, assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital were named among this year's ten Outstanding Young Men of Boston by the Junior Chamber of Commerce...
They have had little to be woeful about since. Dean Sizer has welcomed all of WE's committees; two student-run seminars have been set up; the Ed School Student Association has won representation on two faculty planning committees and will soon set up a Student Committee on Academic Policy...
...Scheffler Report, which was prepared by ten faculty members and published last September, encouraged students to participate in policy-making at School of Education. Theodore R. Sizer, dean of the faculty of education, that the administration agrees with principles of the Report and will listen to anything the students suggest...
...organized a cooperative program with 30 of the top liberal-arts colleges in the U.S. to funnel some of their most talented graduates into professional education via Harvard's graduate school. After Keppel moved on in 1962 to become U.S. Commissioner of Education, another brilliant young innovator, Theodore Sizer, now 33, succeeded him as dean, and continued the push toward making education a major concern of all of Harvard's academic disciplines...
Shunning the status quo, Dean Sizer insists that Harvard should be concerned with "what schools should be like in the future, and to train people for service in them now." A school of education, he believes, must seek a balance between "the wisdom gained from detachment and that from commitment." The search for the proper mix between necessary involvement in social reform and a more aloof and thoughtful attitude toward education is nothing new, in Sizer's view, but the challenge for Harvard is that "no institution has so far achieved...