Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Solicitor General for four years, Robert Bork may be remembered best for sacking Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in 1973 on Richard Nixon's orders. Now Bork has job offers from seven gilt-edged law firms "and invitations to teach law at Chicago, Michigan, Princeton and Yale. Says he of the Saturday Night Massacre: "The people who have jobs to offer aren't troubled...
...epigrammatical flash and more on substance still remains, however. Stoppard is only 38, still a young playwright, and Travesties must be looked on as an early work of genius. But it is genius, nonetheless; someday we may wonder why and how Stoppard went on, while the rest of us teach, work, play, lie in the cemetary up the hill in Zurich or under glass in the Kremlin...
...What they do want is to acquire skills to satisfy their own creative urges or help them survive-plant-growing and plumbing, for instance." Colleges and universities will have to adjust swiftly to this developing educational market -even if tenured professors of medieval English have to be retrained to teach ceramics and auto repair...
...another fear is that minimal competency might turn into maximum competency as well. Says Titus Singletary, an associate state school superintendent in Georgia: "We must be wary of tailoring our programs to meet one need and concentrating so much on it that we don't teach anything else." And, of course, there is the ultimate question: What to do with the student who fails...
...influential 1968 treatise, Rich Schools, Poor Schools, argued that children in both affluent and underprivileged school districts had the right to an equal education. Wise is currently working on another book, tentatively titled Hyper-Rationalization, which condemns competency testing for "narrowing the goals of education and prompting teachers to teach the test." Wise fears that minimal competency entails the extension to education of such business-school concepts as cost effectiveness and accountability. Says he of minimal competency advocates: "It is as if they want to set goals and objectives by numbers. There is little room for the excellent teacher...