Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story, red-brick building at 85 Stanton St. attests. (Beneath Javits' name someone has scrawled "Nigger Lover.") Until his bar mitzvah at 13, Jack slept in the same bed with his brother Ben, now 71. "Our relationship was that of father and son," says Ben, who tried to teach Jack all he knew; to the vast annoyance of Jack's wife, he is still trying. For a time, Ben was, in his words, "a red-hot Socialist" who railed on street corners against the system that was crushing his father. Today, as a well-to-do lawyer, he is closer...
...TEACHING OF SCIENCE: "The really big thing that has happened in the past 300 years-and if you don't know this, you are an ignoramus-is that in that time men have learned how to go about understanding the physical world. This is the overpowering fact of modern times-the most important development in 100,000 years of human existence. And the higher-education program that doesn't recognize this is as inadequate as the elementary schools that fail to teach the three Rs."-Caltech President Lee DuBridge at Cornell College, Iowa...
According to Oliver, the project will be important because it will take away from the school part of the responsibility for teaching humanities and social sciences. "As total institutions," Oliver said, "secondary schools are hopeless. We can leave them the things they teach best--math and science. But it's time we began to let general education wither away...
Some programs that the Shadow Faculty finances are neither planned nor are run by it. These include James R. Reed's attempt, beginning this fall, to teach interested Harvard Faculty members and students about Roxbury...
...together have been threatening to fly apart entirely. The university community has been heard in public debate, and it has made it clear that it is dissatisfied with the performance of the government. Washington, in turn, has evinced little enthusiasm for the academics' appearance as public figures. At a teach-in at Harvard last summer a speaker, Professor Staughton Lynd of Yale, suggested that the President was insane and was vigorously applauded. Meanwhile, in a capital once overrun with professors, academic credentials seem now to be treated more as a disease than as a qualification for public employment...