Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First, improvement of the teaching effectiveness of lecturers, advisors, and section men. The report says that the University-College balance is partially at fault, the faculty members have to devote too much time to their specialty and not enough to the undergraduates. If this is correct, perhaps the Administration could insist that all Faculty members devote more of their working hours to the College, as GE instructors already do. Perhaps also the Administration should consider a man's ability to teach as well as to publish when it makes promotions and appointments. And if Faculty members would read the Poskanzer...
...report's central thesis is that "Harvard education has failed to recognize or to assess the implications of the basic problem of teacher-centered versus student-oriented education. It is the difference between viewing a college as an institution in which teachers teach as opposed to one in which students learn...
...20th Century from its own hatreds, confusions and follies. In liberal political theory, education is what gives the common man the ever increasing wisdom to govern his society. Again & again, during the M.I.T. convocation, speakers called on education to run major errands for humanity; philosophers wanted it to teach the proper attitude toward mass production, educators wanted it to do a better job of education...
Another Democratic senator quoted from Dewey's debate last May with Harold E. Stassen, in which Dewey opposed outlawing the Communist Party. But, said Ben Feinberg: "This is different. Shall we permit known Communists ... to take our youths when they are most impressionable and let them teach subversive doctrines? Freedom of speech never contemplated the power to destroy the system that guarantees that freedom...
...preaching of hell, said His Holiness, "is more than ever urgent today." The duty of the church, "before God and men, is to teach it ... as Christ revealed it . . . Desire for heaven is a more perfect motive than fear of eternal punishment, but from this it does not follow that it is the most effective motive to hold . . . [people] far from sin and convert them...