Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Considerable confusion developed, however, when Dever, in response to questions, attempted to describe possible methods of improvement. At first the former Governor replied emphatically, "By firing Furry, I'm for the Fifth Amendment," fuses to tell whether he's a communist shouldn't teach our youth...
...freshman English course, "which is designed to teach the effective handling of the English language as a means of expression and communication. We would regard this as fourth and fifth form stuff, and indeed it is; but it is necessary because of the defects of American secondary education in this respect...
...addressed by Allen Zoll. whose American Patriots, Inc. was listed by the Attorney General as a "Fascist" organization. Zoll, said the Journal-Bulletin, charged that the U.N. is "a device to permit the colored races to rule the white races [and that] UNESCO is an alien conspiracy to teach sex delinquency to American schoolchildren...
...unique solution to the problem of separate but equal education for races. Under the recently passed Bantu Education Act, natives will get education so unequal it is almost primitive. The Act will place natives in segregated schools run by the Native Affairs Ministry, whose avowed purpose is to teach only the "agrarian arts": soil care, cattle herding, and health. Somewhat more important is the implicit aim of teaching the native to accept his role as an inferior creature...
According to Boeing officials, their program has resulted in mutual advantage for them and the colleges. The professors go back to teach with more knowledge of industry and the practical aspects of engineering. This added insight helps them turn out efficient graduate engineers without the "traditional green of new sprung college men." A. A. Soderquist, administrative engineer in charge of the Boeing program, calls the summer study plan "a long range gamble that has already started to pay off. Even if we weren't getting better oriented men, just the work the professors do during the summer makes the program...