Word: blackboarding
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Fieser's personality overflow into every part of his life. In class he is the absent-minded professor who, to the amusement of his class, frequently loses track of ten carbon atoms in his blackboard equations. In his laboratory, he is a craftsman, who runs through experiments with precision technique. He wipes his hands on the white towel that perennially hangs from his hip pocket, he blows clouds of cigarette smoke toward his embryo compounds, and blanks his butts in a water faucet. Outside the lab, he writes books on arson and lectures in all parts of the world...
School days brought spoon-fed indoctrination. Sample: at the end of each drawing class, the teacher would draw "a big, five-pointed star on the blackboard, which we had to copy . . . This was called 'the bringing of the revolutionary element into the subject...
...educators have felt for a long time that emphasis on teaching techniques has gotten out of hand in this country. Undergraduates who plan to enter the teaching profession have been spending an increasing amount of their time on the sort of subjects that are facetiously referred to as 'blackboard engineering.' . . . In some cases they spent more time studying teaching methods than they did studying the subject they would be called upon to teach...
...start their conversion to four-year general college courses. Private colleges in the state, if they fall in with the plan, will get the same help. The changeover will take a good ten years to complete, and it will be at least 1962 before the last traces of blackboard engineering are erased from Arkansas' school system...
West, an 18-year-old son of a paper-plant foreman, who quit Georgia Tech because he found nothing but "hard, cold facts of engineering," looked like a church -ly Frank Sinatra, in his Paisley bow tie and purple jacket, his big ears enlarged in shadows on the blackboard behind him. He read his long text (Luke 9: 20-27: ". . . And be rejected of the elders . . ."), and in a businesslike manner proceeded to expound it-the job of youth today. "Unless we, the young people of today, go to work, we're going to lose in the end. This...