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...vast majority of rules are still enforced and the list of taboos is long. Each class is given a demerit ceiling for each month; going over the linit earns a cadet several hours of "walking the area," a practice of being forced to dress in formal uniform, mount rifle upon shoulder and walk back and forth in the courtyard. If you skip a class, you automatically "walk...
INTEGRITY, responsibility, honesty--those sound a little hard to grade. Fortunately, there are objective criteria. "Appearance, now appearance counts quite a bit, the number of times you wear your uniform and all," Henderson explains. The U.S. government provides the uniforms free of charge, small, baggy replicas of real Air Force clothes. More importantly, they provide decorations. At the front of the class, all the pins and badges--right up to four-star general--are glued on a piece of cardboard...
Soon after, World War I, which drew 800 Cambridge men into uniform, had more effect on Harvard than MIT. Harvard was largely turned over to the Naval Radio School...
...Bryant's only loser, 1-9. Two years later, Texas A & M won the Southwest Conference title. Still Bryant drove his players fiercely. John David Crow, a halfback who won the Heisman Trophy in 1957, recalls going into the dressing room after practice, pulling off his sweat-soaked uniform and, too tired to stand, sitting on a chair in the shower. As he relaxed, Bryant called the team back on the field for another practice. Baking in the sun, Crow fainted and was out for three hours. The first sight he saw upon regaining consciousness was Bryant, hovering anxiously...
Underlying most current licensing reform proposals is the assumption that teaching can be improved by making the field more professional through use of measurable standards and uniform review procedures. In marked contrast, another licensing proposal is aimed at wresting control of teacher standards away from the present educational establishment. That radical notion has been proposed by Philosopher Mortimer Adler, 77, who argues that most of the nation's education schools and departments "are themselves the reason why our schools are staffed by woefully incompetent, uneducated, illiterate, unmotivated teachers...