Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point, the cultist's life is no longer his own. Personalities change from the lively and complex patterns of normality to those of an automaton reciting what he has been taught. The usual problems of living have been replaced by a nearly childish existence in which the cult and its leaders supply all rules and all answers. Erich Fromm, in his classic treatise on the rise of Nazism, called this process the "escape from freedom...
...ranks of the stay-at-homes are growing for other reasons as well. In Washington State a Mormon mother keeps her two daughters out of public schools because she fears they will be taught Darwinian concepts of evolution...
...arms of a beautiful poodle. Which is all right: the hero is fond of putting on the dog. In Tiffky Doofky (Farrar. Straus & Giroux; $7.95), William Steig shows why his juvenile following equals the Pied Piper's, and how four decades as a New Yorker cartoonist have taught him exactly where and how to pull his punch lines...
Another proposal would extend to other departments innovations implemented this year in the Government Department, which now allows juniors the option to enroll for one semester in a faculty-taught seminar instead of a junior tutorial. The seminars would probably contain more students than existing tutorials, but by offering the seminars the University would permit students to decide whether they wished to sacrifice the intimacy of a small group for a chance to study under someone who has more experience in the field...
...courses that they teach. The other proposal advocates a reclassification on the rank of professors as a postdoctoral position with emphasis on teaching. Because there are so many qualified post-doctoral academics on the market, the University could hire such instrutors to teach many of the undergraduate tutorials currently taught by graduate students. Instuctors could teach specific tutorials concerning subjects on which they have specialized, avoiding the all-too-prevalent misfortune of having graduate students teach subjects with which they are unfamiliar...