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Preoccupation with exams leads the Japanese to emphasize memorization rather than analytical thinking. The pedagogy is simple: the teacher talks, the students listen. Says Taeko Yamato, an English instructor at a private school outside Tokyo: "The school system doesn't let teachers teach well." Admits Twelfth-Grader Ayutaro Kogure: "For the tests you only memorize, which you forget as soon as the exams are over." Some students are beginning to take an uncharacteristically disrespectful course: open rebellion. Youthful crime has jumped 12.4% in the past year, with juveniles accounting for almost half of all criminal offenders in Japan. Violence...
John P. Reardon Jr. '60 director of athletics, agreed citing overcrowding of facilities and ever increasing participation in recreation athletics as factors necessitating expansion, "At this University," he said, "whether you sweep floors or teach physics, everyone thinks they're some kind of athlete...
...lessons Noam Chomsky sets out to teach us in Toward a New Cold War are invaluable. The United States, like any other nations, can and does err, and often in a big way. But Chomsky cannot support at all his implicit diagnosis that America is "bad." While the United States has often taken the wrong path, it has rarely failed to demonstrate--at least in the long run--the courage to reverse its steps...
...specialist in microeconomic theory, labor economics and industrial organization, Loury said he plans to teach an undergraduate course that addresses Afro-American issues from an economic perspective...
Richard E. Sochacki fired Steven Schiller, a member of the Hare Krishnas just one half-hour into the first meeting of Schiller's vegetarian cooking class January 27 because he and three fellow devotees, who were helping to teach the course, were all wearing their religious dress, Bob Croce, an assistant editor of The News, said Thursday...