Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accident that men of moral integrity teaching politically sensitive subjects are afraid to teach at Cornell. Allegedly racist statements have been the object of coercive methods here before-and undoubtedly will be again. College administrators and faculty members all across the country will soon learn the term "racist" is now more a catchall than "Communist" was in Joe McCarthy's heyday...
Such men inspire hope that the next stage in intellectual history will be a renewed sense of wholeness and the unity of knowledge. The time has come for intellectuals to study and teach that vision. What they should remember, though, is their own tendency to hope more innocently and despair more deeply than others. Flaubert had some good advice for intellectuals of every stripe: "By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself." That risk is unusually high among today's divided intellectuals; perhaps if they lowered their own idiocy level, the rest...
...into an alien white culture. "We have to meet the Negro in his world," he says, "explore his ghetto for its strengths, and understand the processes whereby this seemingly wicked environment sustains a viable culture." White America must not only learn to appreciate that culture, he argues, but to teach Negroes about white culture in a language that they will understand...
...remember how I myself had looked forward for much of the summer to coming back early to Cambridge and preparing to teach in Challenge; how I had viewed it as an opportunity to expose children to the sort of education of which I felt deprived. It was the sort of education which would allow the children to experience themselves and one another in a creative, spontaneous and alive way; one levels of expression, sensitivity and communication...
WITH THE spring term many positive changes have come to Challenge. for one, most teachers now "team teach." This allows for more individual attention to be given each child, as well as for a more relaxed atmosphere in the classroom. The staff has suggested curriculum ideas which, when implemented in the class, require planning by the child but which offer him a concrete feeling of success. Long-range projects such as Model Cities or Musical Instruments provide a structure large enough for everyone to work in while being individually creative...