Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Medici prince-personally responsible for a distinguished professor's livelihood and scholarship." One successful technique is that used by California's tiny Claremont Men's College, which has set up ten endowed professorships since 1958. "The best way to do it is to take the great teacher who will occupy the chair to meet the prospective donor," contends Claremont Presidential Assistant John Payne. "The result is often electric...
There is some justice in the teachers' claim to power. Those now in charge of the schools, particularly in the big cities, have failed miserably-and teachers cannot be blamed for overcrowded classes, inept texts, pre-Sputnik curriculums. Even the injection of billions of dollars in federal funds, designed specifically to spur innovation, has largely bypassed the classroom teacher. Of some 700 federal grants awarded last year in Michigan, teachers were not consulted in 80% of the cases...
...theory, a superintendent or principal is a top teacher who has earned promotion; shoving him aside seems self-defeating, even from the teachers' viewpoint. Yet the best teachers tend to shun administrative chores, particularly detest the humdrum courses in educational administration that many states require in order to qualify for supervisory posts. One result, concedes B. Frank Brown, the innovation-minded superintendent of Florida's Brevard County, is that many administrators are "former coaches, who get by with a pitch, a smile and flimflam." Others become mere paper-shufflers...
While a grad student, he spent a year teaching English at Robert College in Istanbul. He often spoke of his year as an English teacher, and in 1956, while on a trip to Athens, he attended a reunion staged by some of those former students...
...creating it. Through mastery of emotional memory after mastery of sensory memory, we create something new." "Absolutely fascinating," says Jeanne Moreau. "In principle, I am against all systems for training actors, but now 1 know that this is not what Strasberg means or does. He is a great teacher, the kind who doesn't mold an actor but makes him discover simple things he has never really considered or important things he has forgotten." Jean-Paul Belmondo prefers to forget Strasberg. He attended one class, stayed ten minutes, and then stalked out, sniffing: "I'm not for that...