Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adult education has come a long way from the days when its primary concerns were to teach immigrants to speak English and illiterates to read. The Association of University Evening Colleges now boasts 102 members. Columbia University's School of General Studies has a first-rate liberal-arts faculty of its own; and the University of Chicago's University College, where housewives and businessmen can start studying Aristotle's Poetics at 7 in the morning, is growing at a faster rate (7% in one year) than the undergraduate college. But if adult education has changed the function...
None of the 20 IC courses have more than 20 enrollees, because the secondary aim of the program is to teach men to talk. In addition, Wriston believes that an instructor cannot adequately criticize the written work of his students unless he knows them personally...
Dean Keeney feels the same way about the faculty members as does Walker about the caliber of the student body. "They teach at Brown because they like the atmosphere," he says, acknowledging the lower wage scale. There is complete freedom to do research work at Brown, but being a relatively small college, it occasionally loses men who require a broader scope in their particular fields...
With a series of four sieves, the University pans for its professors. The number of teachers who remain at the end of this selective process is small, since the University is continually sifting them. The prospective professor begins as a teaching fellow, a graduate student working for his doctorate. One of some 400, he is the primal form of faculty life. Frequently he must have completed most of his Ph.D. work, have passed his exams, and be writing his thesis to be accepted for the post. He is selected by his department, approved by the faculty dean, and given...
...department of History, on the other hand, is concerned with developing scholars. It aims at training professional historians, whether they will also be teachers, researchers, or even lawyers or businessmen. Indeed, nearly all the graduate students in History want to teach. But History, like other major fields, is overcrowded. There simply is not enough demand for teachers, and as a result, about a third of all Ph.D.'s in History enter careers as archivists, government workers, or sometimes, as businessmen...