Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead of finding the kind of teacher who seeks what Harvard College Dean John Monro calls "a mind-to-mind confrontation" with students, undergraduates often stare across 30 rows of seats at a listless scholar reading from his own textbook and begrudging the time spent away from his esoteric research. In smaller classes, students are likely to meet some harassed teaching assistant absorbed in his specialized graduate studies, sometimes not even teaching in his own sphere of knowledge. "We have sought out ability with football quarterbacks, we are beginning to do it with executives and musicians, but we haven...
...respectability?has given professors mobility and financial independence, which too many use to demand fewer teaching hours so that they can spend more time in research, writing and lucrative consultation. At the nation's top universities, the average science professor carries only six classroom hours a week, the humanities teacher about eight. A "star" system has evolved in which, for example, Columbia College Dean David Truman wonders how he can keep a professor whom another school has offered $30,000 a year, with no teaching and $100,000 for laboratory equipment. Some 70,000 professors now devote full time...
...problem is not the overblown cry that professors are forced to "publish or perish." Most of the good teachers, in fact, cannot resist publishing; they have something they want to say to the world beyond their classrooms. Every teacher needs time to reflect and explore the frontiers of his field if he is to keep his teaching fresh. But whether all kinds of research always help teaching is problematical. Too often, says University of Utah English Chairman Kenneth Eble, scholarly magazines are established merely so that they can be "sent to editors of other magazines," and the scholar's great...
...Ph.D. Myth. Even more dismaying is widespread professorial snobbishness toward anyone who consciously thinks about the techniques of good teaching. "It's a myth that once a man gets a Ph.D. he's a good teacher," says Earlham College President Landrum Boiling. The stress on the Ph.D. is, in fact, under sharp attack for producing narrow specialists. University of Texas Classics Chairman William Arrowsmith says that "liberal arts colleges should have the guts to say to Harvard and Yale that they don't want any more overtrained, overspecialized Ph.D.s, many of whom are really incompetent to talk to undergraduates." University...
...student is "informed, intelligent, and committed. You then talk to him as a peer?as your companion in learning?and he begins to behave like one." Schorske does not, however, believe in "being buddy-buddy, or in a libidinous relationship such as they have at Sarah Lawrence." The teacher should be neither "lofty nor authoritarian," but his enthusiasm for communicating a subject should command "a natural respect...