Word: teach
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Only by making the core curriculum a coordinated teaching exercise under continuous surveillance and revision by an appropriate body of the faculty do we think that the focus of the teaching can be kept on topics pertinent to the training of physicians. Only in this way, in turn, do we think that we can avoid undue cluttering of the curriculum with factual details. It is not our intent to belittle facts; the biological sciences unfortunately have not yet achieved broad generalizing concepts which reduce have not yet achieved broad generalizing concepts which reduce the need to know facts. We make...
...Teach a "core curriculum" In a limited time by a coordinated interdepartmental activity...
...faculty from this admixture of required core curriculum and electives should also not be overlooked. It is hoped that this mixture will provide more than a safety valve for those members of a distinguished faculty who may suffer frustrations by their participation in a coordinated program of teaching. These same faculty willhave complete freedom of action and expression in the elective offerings they provide. Opportunity for scholarship and distinction in teaching will be fostered with the likelihood that more great teachers will develop in this system. Our present block and coordinated teaching is so geared to an accepted urgency...
Lisser's exit under pressure brought on a well-deserved counter-revolt. All but two of the 55-member I.S. 201 faculty-including its 26 Negroes-refused to teach under anyone except Lisser. Assistant Principal Beryl Banfield, a Negro named to replace him, indignantly declined, because, she said, "I object to being chosen on the basis of color, not competence...
Proposals for the exact form of this service still vary wildly: President Eisenhower has suggested that all men be given 49 weeks of military training (one year minus three weeks vacation); there has been talk of sending people to the Peace Corps or to teach public school. No one, however, has suggested that we follow Ethiopia's example and demand that every candidate for a University degree spend two years serving the state -- though Western Michigan College is experimenting with a plan which will enable students to count two years in a Peace Corps-like organization as the equivalent...