Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Have you already copied this down?" she asks, point ing to the topic headings. A few heads bob yes, several more shake no; the rest of the stu dents merely carry on with their private conversations. The subject of the day is not terrorism, energy or Watergate. Aptly enough, the topic is "The Problems of American Education...
...more constructive approach, many educators feel, would be to concentrate on teacher training?deleting some of the methodology instruction in teachers' colleges and adding courses in the teacher's future subject. Says Howe: "Any school worth its salt also needs in-house retraining of teachers rather than sending them off to local teachers' colleges for a course and then raising their salaries...
...discussion and only a few questions about the plot. The 18 students and their teacher all hunch silently in their seats. Down the hall, three more English classes, packed in a small theater, are also viewing films. Complains one teacher: "I really get caught up in my subject matter. But some teachers think that's weird. The attitude in the faculty lounge is, 'Does anyone have a film...
Homework commands three hours a night. For those who do not leave the academic track for a technical one, the system culminates in a stiff national baccalaureat, composed of four-hour tests in each subject and an oral final. On average, only 67% of students who take the exam-mandatory for acceptance to college-manage to pass...
...social comedy. But his stylistic idiosyncrasies are geared to convey energy rather than reflection. The gaudy array of types who tumble through Dar cy's life are more remarkable than remarked upon. The works of Jane Austen and Evelyn Waugh provide an object lesson here: if the subject of a novel is manners, the writer must be on his very best...