Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When our daughter arrived, we assumed that her sex education was our privilege and responsibility, one we gladly accepted. Now, in order to make ours her first introduction to sex, we must begin at the age of 3 1/2, with frank facts rather than "icky imagery." As a former teacher who realizes that not every educator is equipped to handle this topic, I resent the schools' intrusion...
Because most teachers are no better prepared than most parents to provide sex education, the teacher's responsibility will be limited to the supervision of the students' use of the teaching devices. Parents will be encouraged to continue discussion at home, and experts will be used for individual counseling...
...teacher, I find that Dickey's "profound sense of conjunction with the world" strikes the gut and mind of students, who take to Lowell's poetry as to a rainy...
...Through art," believes rangy athletic Bartlett Hayes, Jr., 62, "the student learns to adapt and meet the unexpected. The quarterback learns this on the football field; the student can learn it in the gallery." As an art teacher at Phillips Academy, Andover, since 1933, and head of the prep school's Addison Gallery of American Art since 1940, Bart Hayes has taught two generations of Andover boys how to adapt, and in the process set nationwide precedents in art instruction and appreciation. Says Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas P. F. Hoving, who attended Andover's archrival Exeter: "Bart Hayes...
Community participation is not itself a revolutionary concept in American education. In pre-urban times, according to Sizer, the extended family had primary responsibility for educating its offspring. Later the community and the school-teacher divided that responsibility, but with the coming of urbanization and industrialization, parents and community increasingly surrendered their children's education to professionals. This development contributed to the hazards of bureaucracy, but also encouraged the separation of education from life outside the school's walls...