Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interview scholars who had been recently hired or fired to see how recruiting policy effected their habits. Everyone knows, for example, that big universities do not promote men simply because they are good teachers. But there is no objective evidence that this has subverted the quality of university teaching. It is possible that the personal challenge of facing a room full of live students forces a professor to teach as well as he knows how, and that more tangible incentives such as promotion would be superfluous and ineffective...
...group members will "teach, counsel, and befriend" the delinquents, Rubenstein added, but will not try to "cast themselves in the role of junior psychiatrists...
Singing Salesman. As a youngster, Johnny had something to cry about. Born near Kingsland, Ark. ("just a wide place in the road"), he grew up on a hardscrabble farm. Johnny's Baptist family were mainly hymn singers, but his mother reckoned that it was all right to teach the boys how to strum her battered old guitar. At twelve, Johnny was writing poems, songs and gory stories. At 22, after a tour in the Air Force, he was married, making a poor living as an appliance salesman in the poorer sections of Memphis...
Broad knowledge will not be pre-digested for New College students; it will come as a natural consequence of exploration, of "getting around" in their subjects. Methods are best introduced, not in the abstract, but in action. The fall freshman seminar will teach methodology by exploring limited subjects, each teacher deciding on a subject and its limits with a view to best showing a group of about thirteen students how he works, and how they can work, in using his discipline...
Several members of the Committee on General Education have predicted, however, that the present policy on finals may not be retained if the tendency of the changes continues. Noting that Professors Brower, Guerard, and Riesman teach courses without finals, one member of the Committee put his view of the situation this way, "If one professor, and then one more, and one more is allowed to do it, sooner or later the whole program will have to be re-examined...