Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teachers used to rigid lesson plans, broad-gauge humanities courses are hard to teach. Parents, too, sometimes wonder about the merit of programs that are not designed to prepare students for conquering the dry, factual state Regents exams. But educators believe that in the long run such courses help students establish values and concepts that will hold good throughout their lives. "The goal is discovery," says J. William Dodd, assistant to the Garden City superintendent. "We want to present issues and problems and let the kids solve them by themselves...
...millions of teenagers are to be housed, fed, clothed, and set to gainful employment is nowhere discussed. Who is to teach them, in Miss Mead's words, to be "citizens alert to the problems and responsibilities of nationhood in a rapidly changing world," no one knows. That it is right to teach them this euphemism for plain old Americanism is assumed...
...case, middle-level classes are the Gen Ed section man's dream. He is freed from the dreary search for inept metaphors and badly constructed sentences that absorbs most of a teaching fellow's energy in what one of them called "the basic idiot's course." Instead he is able to teach his own field to students who have declared an interest in it. The old "why-bother-with-the-reading-it's-only-Gen-Ed" syndrome seems to have vanished in middle level sections...
...like Andrew T. Weil '64, former editor of the Harvard Review, who will teach "Exposition and Scientific Methods" this spring, remain convinced that "almost all Harvard undergraduate writing is bad" and will continue to emphasize basic stylistic virtues. More often, though, the middle group courses start by assuming technical competence...
...solid B student may pass out of our hands, still writing the kind of mechanical prose that is all you need to get B's around here. He often has the ideas to do A work and we wish we were able to teach him how to write it," Rosenblatt says...