Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Red Cross because it wanted "the best man, not the best white man," only to discover that, by a supreme irony, the blood would have to be racially segregated. The program also pointed up Drew's less public but equally important work as a superlative teacher of surgery at Howard University...
...Viet Nam because "within the next decade or two there will be a billion Chinese on the mainland, armed with nuclear weapons, with no certainty about what their attitude toward the rest of Asia will be." Minnesota's Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy, a former college economics teacher, echoed the charge. Pundit Walter Lippmann adduced a more directly racial argument with a proposal that the U.S. "pull back from the Vietnamese mainland to continental islands inhabited by Western white men"-namely, Australia and New Zealand...
...Charles Eliot Norton Professorship, which brings to Harvard each year an authority of high distinction and international reputation, commemorates Harvard's great nineteenth century teacher of art history. Last year the professorship was held by Meyer Shapiro, professor of Fine Arts at Columbia...
...systems use substitutes when regular teachers are unwell. But the ghetto schools of Boston bear the sinister distinction of having used substitutes in place of regular teachers in dozens of ghetto classrooms month after month, year after year. I have known children who have had as many as 25 substitute teachers in three months. I have known children who have not had one, single, serious, permanent, competent, fully trained teacher during the course of three full years...
...answer to soaring college enrollment and the surging cost of professors is to put the prof in front of a television camera and simultaneously pipe him into numerous classrooms. Better yet, just record his performance on videotape, use it repeatedly, and free the teacher to do something else-possibly even to talk with students. Today more and more colleges are finding that not only is a taped professor as informative as a live one, but he seldom turns sour and never grows weary of talking...