Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prelude to War (U.S. Army) was not made for civilians, but to teach U.S. fighting men why they are at war. Its makers neither intended nor imagined that civilian audiences would see it. But since OWI's Elmer Davis (and, reputedly, President Roosevelt) found it good, its general distribution was all but inevitable...
...faculty of AAFSAT watches the combat areas (where most of its members have served in this war). There, they know by experience, is where the true research is being sweated out. As a new technique is developed, airmen who have worked it out are brought home to teach it. Thus AAFSAT's faculty is as fluid as the lore it teaches...
...them the worm's perspective. There are a few broad outlines they might well remember. Departments, often made rigid by custom and habit, could be kept alive by frequent conferences, with new ideas actually sought after. The large problem of faculty appointments needs attention--getting the right man to teach the right course, getting the great scholars and at the same time capable and inspiring instructors. Depredations of public service among the faculty will have to be compensated for. Individual departments have faults. For example, the committees will have to see about a fuller offering in American Literature, Language courses...
...paternal duty to tell our children clearly that Italy has in herself such a wealth of tradition that she is in a position to be able to teach other nations, without there being any need for other nations to change her social forms...
...national house organ, Achievement (mostly written by J.A.'s elder statesmen), which sags from too much uplift about working hard to succeed. But J.A.'s kids have always been anything but ponderous. Founded 24 years ago by Horace Augustus Moses (head of Strathmore Paper Co.) to teach business methods to adolescents before they went to work, J.A. has done just that for more than 75,000 youngsters. The Moses formula still prevails: up to 15 boys, girls or both, backed by their families or local businessmen, sell 25-50? shares (only five to a customer) in a corporation...