Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Similar courses in biology, chemistry and physiology can easily be envisioned, and they would serve a purpose beyond their theoretical value. They would enable the Committee on General Education to obtain the services of some of the great scientific experts on the Faculty who are not sufficiently interested to teach a survey course but who might be extremely interested in presenting their particular specialty to the non-scientist...
...York: "Afternoons I work in the morgue. Mornings I pupil-teach in preparation for a teaching license. The morning teachers are far deader than the afternoon corpses. Evenings I study, periodically falling asleep over a book with the cross-eyed Siamese cat asleep at my thigh. Tomorrow I will eat three big meals and play my cello...
...gangs spring up to replace the broken stability of the group." Adds a Brooklyn junior high school assistant principal: "The kids reflect the adults and the world they live in." Says another school official: "We try to make them act the way we don't. We try to teach them to be generous, to believe in the sacredness of human life, to respect the rights of others. But the kids have eyes...
...Deweyites thus transformed conditioning techniques into ends in themselves. Teachers' colleges assumed the dignity of lamaseries. Teachers were denied the chance of learning more about their subjects, in favor of compulsory education courses in how to teach them...
Ceiling Limited. In Arlington, Va., a first-grader entering the Washington Post's "Favorite Teacher" essay contest was full of praise for his Miss Davis, added with an eye on next year: "I wish she was smart enough to teach second grade...