Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each year there is a lot more medical knowledge. Conscientious professors try to teach as much as they can, and students write it all down and try to learn it. This year, a special faculty subcommittee has said the whole routine is dreary and out-moded. Its report recommends that the Med School give up teaching everybody everything and let students have the freedom to study what interests them...
Electives would be small courses, like graduate seminars, exploring minute areas in depth. A professor could teach anything he wanted in an elective, and could throw as much detail as he desired at his students -- if he still...
Some courses, including a couple of current ones, have from time to time been taught by members of more than one department. But a number of men obviously would chafe if they had to teach under the proposed system. "When you get a committee telling me that I give a lecture on this one day and on that another day, I feel like a $50-a-day call girl," rasps one. "There's nothing here that belongs to me but two lectures in a smorgas-bord that a committee has put together...
...premise behind The Chelsea Girls is that underground life can teach its own lessons if it is carefully enough examined...