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Among other projects attesting to TIME's lively interest in education are special student editions and rates, free college advertisements, a weekly Teacher's Guide to TIME, classroom wall maps and charts, a study guide to the Foreign Policy Association's Great Decisions, and TIME's Guide to the Year 2000, written by Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the world's foremost forecasters of future socio-scientific realities...
...career late. He went to Boston Latin and to Yale (where he was a junior Phi Beta Kappa), got a doctorate in Romance languages after writing a dissertation on the 19th century French poet Stéphane Mallarmé that is still quoted by scholars. He became a teacher almost inevitably. "If one takes Romance languages, one teaches," he says. But after four years, "I couldn't stand it any longer." At 29, he went into law "because it seemed an available thing. Soon, however, I began to find it challenging and fascinating. What I liked so much...
Nonetheless, his students call him a great teacher.* "He has the ability," says one, "to pick a minute point of law and expand it, contract it, show its variations, its logic, its evolution. It's not the material that makes his courses; it's Gilmore." Another chimes in: "He's not flashy. Essentially, you're getting hard thinking. You won't find what he teaches in any books...
...pupil was tactfully restrained when he beat his old teacher last week-and the teacher took the defeat in stride. Marching over to the A. & M. bench, Bryant hoisted Stallings onto his shoulders and paraded him around the sidelines...
There is no shortage of administrative fortitude now, and O'Leary plunges through the Byzantine web of bureaucracy as if it were not there at all. He encourages promising teachers to take the city's qualifying exam-then snatches them before any other principal even knows of their existence. "A good scholar is not necessarily a good teacher," he says. "A teacher must love boys first. Then he must have a good background in methodology and in his discipline." A good teacher, he might add, does not have to be a man; O'Leary has broken...