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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teacher can teach in a moral vacuum. It doesn't matter how high you score on the test or how many degrees you have or how much tenure you have if you come to school as late as you can, leave as early as you can, make as much as you can, and then sit on your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quotations from a Spellbinder | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...model could be the Sudan, which has the rich soil and abundant water to become the breadbasket for all Africa. In partnership with Khartoum, American growers, packers and technicians could teach Sudanese farmers, set up irrigation and distribution networks, and build processing plants. After some initial U.S. and local government subsidies or guarantees the ventures would pay for themselves through exports. Says Wyman: "Neither the developing countries nor we want the U.S. to feed the world. The economics of that are not as interesting as having the world feed itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Thought for Food | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...dean for every grade, plus a head dean for the deans. At one school they had enough money to buy six electric typewriters, so they did?even though there was only one typist. Money is allotted for summer school mainly so more teachers can have jobs. And instead of teaching remedial reading, they teach backpacking or other craftsy things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sound and Fury over Taxes | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

Legras might have fared even worse in the U.S. Almost all U.S. law schools teach the common law doctrine that "spring guns," booby-trapped weapons that fire at an intruder, are excessively violent when used to protect empty premises. In a 1971 Iowa case, Katko vs. Briney, the State Supreme Court upheld an award of $30,000 in damages to a man who was injured by a spring gun when he broke into the upstairs bedroom of an abandoned farmhouse. In a 1974 case, San Anselmo, Calif, Homeowner Don Luis Ceballos was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Burglars and Booby Traps | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

...subject. "I don't think introduction has to be superficial," he concludes. What will, in the long run, determine the success or failure of the Core will be the ability and willingness of the Core committees to enforce the guidelines on course selection, and to find professors willing to teach the new Core courses...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The View From the Top | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

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