Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these changes, trivial as some of them are, indicate a future race of superior executives? Says one student: "You go through some soul searching. This may not teach us to make decisions faster-or even as quickly-but they'll be better decisions." Adds a divisional revenue accounting manager: "I used to do only the things that had always been done before. Now I ask myself what this department is going to be like 20 years from now, how this decision is going to fit in. I used to think that there was nothing in life besides earning money...
...Trained in similar mechanical ways are ducks and geese that beat on drums, hamsters that swing on trapezes, goats that dance and highjump, rabbits that kiss each other, pigs that clean up a cluttered room. There seems to be no limit to the tricks that mechanical reward devices can teach to almost any animal. "All we have to do," says Breland, "is to keep the act within the known limitations of the given species...
...long as airplanes need a human pilot, Bader concluded, there ought to be planes around that are small enough to teach those pilots what it really is to fly. "In the jet age of the future, we may get planes without humans." Then, said the old fighter pilot sadly, no one will need to fly. "We can all sit in the basement pressing buttons marked Moscow...
...methods of dealing with the critical scarcity of teachers expected when the nation's post-war babies reach secondary school age. "State normal schools provide elementary teachers, but this is the first time that a way has been devised for encouraging the necessary numbers of well-qualified people to teach in the high schools." The deluge of children is now in the lower grades of the public school systems...
Yale's Noyes, director of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at New Haven, warned that the plan depended to a large degree upon the quality of the school children which the trainees will teach. "Harvard is particularly fortunate in having excellent public schools near by for this experiment," he said...