Word: teach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead, Dann suggests, British parents should teach their children that getting high grades and winning prizes are not the most important things in life. He also criticizes doctors who prescribe tranquilizers and sedatives for children, and urges them to speak out against the cruelty of overcompetitiveness. "We know you can teach a baby to swim before it can walk," he adds, "but what on earth for?" One Oxford don adjudged the current crop from English prep schools to be "all burnt out" by the time they get to the university. Laments Dann: "How bitter it must be to have shot...
...other crisis of the year was revision of the curriculum. In 1968, a group headed by Alexander Leaf, Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, had originally changed the curriculum. Under that plan clinicians were called in to teach first-year courses ordinarily left to "Basic Sciences" departments...
Stanford won't let Shockley teach genetics, so the self-appointed "raceologist" will have to keep looking for speaking engagements. Maybe by next year universities will have gotten sick of him; college life is bad enough without Shockley around to make it worse...
Although it appeared that the hiring battle was lost, the recommendations of a curriculum reform committee headed by Kenneth J. Arrow, professor of Economics, Nobel laureate, and a man who had just made known that he was considering accepting an offer to teach at Stanford, underlined that the reformers' challenge was still serious...
...minority as they are now, but how more equal numbers are achieved is equally important. For instance, we're having difficulties in athletics right now, although the athletic departments have been merged fully. There are incredible problems right now. We're a long way from having the athletic department teach students equitably. I'll never accept a merger if it's a submerger...