Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years before FCC will be able to accommodate every D.C. high school graduate who wants to attend--which is the college's goal. And it will be a few years after that before FCC will actively be able to go out and recruit students and attempt to teach the large numbers of dropouts, as Farner wants...
...want to make education a two-way street," one faculty member said this summer, "we want the students to teach us as much as we teach the students. But mostly we want to get the students to realize that by growing up in an urban environment, they have already learned and expressed a great deal...
...agree with Ralph Nader that the contest is unequal. Not that individuals have ceased to count. In a sense, they have never been more important, never more respected for their talents and skills Technology makes everyone a specialist whom everyone else depends, whether to fly planes, raise food or teach children. But somehow, the specialist-managers are losing touch with the specialist-citizens. Too many institutions have grown too big, remote, indifferent. Or so it seems to millions of people the world over, who have made "powerlessness" one of the chief complaints-and clich...
...full of activists. Beyond politics, a census of activists can only be suggested. Everyone knows someone who volunteers for messy civic chores, stubbornly advocates heretical ideas, won't conform to Kafkaesque organizations or autocratic bosses. Doers turn up as doctors who attack outdated treatments, teachers who think schools teach children to fail, corporate vice presidents who accuse their companies of being sclerotic, priests who say popes are fallible, colonels who accuse generals of fighting the last war. If a strictly random sampling of present American activists is drawn from many walks of life, the mixed result looks like this...
...system, auditing the budgets of each school, and establishing national standards for degrees in such fields as medicine, law and engineering. The new law also abolishes lifetime university chairs. To stimulate closer relations with students, professors will be required to live in the towns in which they teach, eliminating the common practice of faculty commuting. Students also won one of last spring's most insistent demands: the right to hold political meetings on campus. But the law stipulates that these must not interfere with the institution's educational mission...