Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Teach them manners. Soap-boxes and sentiment and sympathy haven't saved the world. There are enough den-mothers for all the little boys. Teach them manners. Teach them to be gentlemen...
Addressing a schoolteachers' meeting in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins' President Milton S. Eisenhower (TIME, Sept. 8) said that one reason U.S. educational standards are uncomfortably low is that some schools teach too much. "We know colleges that teach from 3,000 to 4,000 courses," he explained. Higher educational institutions should "cut the number of courses in half and concentrate on those they do with distinction. No college can be all things to all people...
Anybody with enough education credits can teach anything, in the view of some school administrators. All too often, charges Donald R. Tuttle. professor of English at Cleveland's Fenn College, the rule for teachers of English becomes simply, "Anybody who speaks English can teach it." Result, according to Tuttle: only a third of the English teachers in U.S. secondary schools have studied their subject extensively, and another third is "seriously underprepared...
Even if an English teacher has a gift for his profession and a proper grounding in it, there is no certainty that his classes will get the training they should have. Instructors who must teach writing report daily pupil loads of up to 225; at one theme a week and a skimpy five minutes' grading time for each theme, this situation adds a killing 18 hours to their work week. Tuttle's and the council's recommendation: daily loads of not more than 100 students. Without charge, English Teacher Tuttle throws in some advice to school boards...
...father barks at a prim, sleep-dazed old lady babysitter: "You must be stinking, Mrs. Henlein . . . You drank a full quart of gin." When his little girl tries to run away from home, the father, who is always going off on business trips, wonders how he can teach her that home is best and blood is thicker than firewater...