Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfortunate incident. My main regard is not for the loss of the six young Marines, sympathetic as I may be, but I am afraid the accident may precipitate another really great tragedy-a change in the Marine Corps' basic training methods. The Corps doesn't just teach a man how to fight, it makes a fighter out of him. I only hope that thoughtless political pressure will not cause the Marines to change certain traditional training techniques, which are instrumental in molding the fighting Marine who emerges from boot camp...
...fusty critics of public education might worry about the perilous state of high-school Latin, physics and mathematics, Teachers College, Columbia University, was all aglow over another trend. Driver education, reported T.C. happily, is now "the fastest-growing program in the country." Today four out of ten high schools teach it, making students "safer members of traffic society...
...departments will receive the new assistant professors. Edward O. Wilson, Junior Fellow at the University, will teach in the Biology Department...
Scheduled to teach Soviet politics for the Government department is Zbigniew K. Brezezinski, the author of The Permanent Purge, a study of Russian political tactics...
Passivity & Protest. "The teachers I know," says Green, "agree almost unanimously in preferring to teach what may be called advanced academic subjects . . . The pupil takes these subjects because of some intellectual spark of his own." The required courses are something else again. Of 26 pupils in a tenth-grade English class, for instance, three might be outstanding students, 13 might range from "medium to poor." five may be "very poor," and five may be "incapable of doing anything that could properly be labeled tenth-grade English. They do not write a sentence; they do not know or care about capitals...