Word: teacher
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Higher pay is one way to get more teachers. Another: spreading the truth that a teacher's bread is not dough alone. Last week the American Council on Education issued a warm little pamphlet (College Teaching As a Career) that allows three noted U.S. teachers to recruit in their own way-by describing the rich satisfactions they find in their work. Teaching rewards...
Happiness. Says famed Teacher Mark Van Doren of Columbia University: "The college teacher is devoted to the search for truth, and as such he is the envy of all those in our society who are paid to obscure or distort it. He is the only one who is paid to be as honest, as simple, and as serious as he can . . . The work is indeed hard, as it must be since its purpose is to transform a child into a man; but there is no work that makes so happy those who do it well . . . The best teacher is willing...
...Chemist Reuben G. Gustavson, former chancellor of the University of Nebraska: "Twenty-eight years of teaching [college] science gave me the most fun I have ever had. It is fun to help students discover facts and laws unknown to them. [But] it does not take long before student and teacher have walked together out to the frontier of knowledge-a fine comradeship between an older and a younger generation. Each new generation of young scientists gets its happiness by explaining what was inscrutable to the previous generation...
Francis Keppel '38, Dean of the Faculty of Education, emphasized that Skinners' teaching machines were proposed to add efficiency to the present educational system, not to solve the problem of teacher scarcity. Under Skinner's program, a teacher would handle the same number of pupils, he said...
Machines might even be used to emphasize personal relationships in education, Douglas Porter, instructor in Education, indicated. Besides sparing the teacher the time involved in correcting papers or in teaching mechanics like multiplication or spelling, the machines does unpleasant tasks. It tells pupils when they are wrong...