Word: instructional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From these small adventures in utilitarian education, it has set out in the last half-century to accomplish a dizzying task -to embrace, instruct and elevate every child and seeking adult of all classes, all nationalities, all shades of intellectual capability: to teach the sick, the neurotic and the healthy, to inspire the genius and to give the sluggard some manual ability to earn a living. The problems which lie between this noble objective and its fulfillment, the differences between the men who attempt to carry it out and the politicians who control them, have shaped the New York school...
...first, Alami took in only 18 boys, but his enrollment soon rose to 76. He clothed his charges in fresh khaki uniforms, built new adobe huts for them, hired a dozen teachers and master craftsmen to instruct them. Younger boys spent their mornings studying Arabic, English, history, geography and mathematics. Older boys took additional training in carpentry, tailoring, shoemaking and farming. Said Alami: "The Arab world needs enlightened leadership on all levels. We're concentrating on the village level...
Some classmates gained importance when they were named to the student advisers committee, to aid and instruct first year men. T. H. Eliot was chairman of the committee, while W. N. Bump and Chandler Robbins were committee members...
...first, however, we had better identify our predispositions clearly. During five years of editorial comment, we have maintained three standards: first, a teacher must be able to instruct and investigate without pressure or censorship, whether subtle or otherwise, from Harvard's officialdom; second, no decision involving official action on a man's career should in any way depend on the politics and publicity generated in Washington, Beacon Hill, or elsewhere; and lastly, no special conditions, other than those involving fitness to teach, should be created for members of the faculty because teachers should have precisely the same rights...
...completely different way if its faculty wants to push some of them into education. The School, according to the theory that those who want to teach will become teachers anyway, leaves its men alone. Until the fourth year there is little opportunity for students to receive any individual instruction on research projects. Moreover, there are less summer scholarships to enable the faculty to instruct them in teaching pure science with a medical emphasis. The school now shuffles its student through a four year program that usually equips one with enough training to start internship but with little in pure research...