Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert M. Cook, assistant professor of sociology at Yale University, has decided that a teacher should have the right to teach without grades...
...secrecy and a computerlike memory for figures. Helping to guide the destiny of more than 100 companies, he surrounds himself with young engineers, not bankers. "You can't invest in modern industry without understanding the ticklish technical questions," he says, "and it's a lot easier to teach an engineer finance than to teach a financier engineering." So well does that formula work that Paribas profits ($5,000,000 last fiscal year) topped those of all other French banks, including the larger nationalized institutions...
...anger, anxiety and resentment can badly weaken capillary walls. The treatment for such emotional problems is no more clear-cut than it is in ordinary psychiatry. But the two doctors have now started weekly group meetings for parents of 30 Cleveland hemophiliacs under 21. The lesson they try to teach: your son certainly needs extra care, but he is a human being. Overprotection may have tragic results...
...made the faculty feel inferior and lose its sense of authority. How can you teach with any confidence, when you have to put your emotions as well as your knowledge on the line every day, or otherwise three-quarters of your class will be boning up in the library, and only panic-stricken dullards will be out there in front of you? No matter who succeeds Raynsword [Hutchins], Individualized Education has to go. And of course we'll have to bring back football...
...added to the four basic programs of instruction. It will offer interdisciplinary studies, such as social thought or philosophy of science for undergraduates, and will emphasize tutorial and independent studies instead of course-work. The Master of the new division, James Redfield, for several years fulfilled his offer to teach Greek to all comers. The student body of 2,500, taught by its own faculty numbering 350, maintains an incredibly high faculty-student ratio of one to eight...