Word: curricula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came forward with its counterproposal. Under its provisions, all Catholic schools could be leased to the local education authority "at a rent which would allow for mortgage interest or redemption." The government would then support Catholic schools out of taxes, in return would have sole power to regulate school curricula and appoint teachers. Beyond the fact that the proposal would still leave the ownership of the schools in church hands, there was another big string tied to it: the teachers would be subject to Catholic approval "as regards religious belief, character and fitness, and the religious education provided...
...women's colleges was clear to Smith's new president: they must thoroughly investigate "the role of women in contemporary life," and perhaps change their curricula accordingly. The "older and more firmly established" colleges had been slow to do so. "I can see no justification," said he, "for allowing the newer and frankly experimental colleges to take the initiative in making the investigations and the trials which may seem to be called...
...described the earth and sky and the changing seasons or paraphrased the weather report out in Sioux-land. When he writes of the intellectual life of Christian College, he is seldom as likable and never convincing. At best, he doggedly describes freshman themes, the lectures and the changing curricula. At worst, he peevishly rehearses "the arid one-testicled theories" of the American humanists, or sports, with grim intent, through an embarrassing parody called The Love Song of J. Freddie Petticoat by B. S. Idiom...
...real danger, the panel implied, was not so much in frankly technical schools, which for good or ill are indispensable to 20th Century life, as in "liberal" colleges whose curricula have been invaded by petty specializations of all sorts. Said one speaker: "The modern university catalogue, with courses in everything from prenatal care to funeral directing, looks like a Sears, Roebuck catalogue." Sir Richard Livingstone, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, summed up: "To know one's age, and nothing else, is useless. We must be able to criticize and judge it ... Otherwise we risk being captives...
Actually, according to their plans, this will not mean adding new courses to over-crowed curricula. The educators, hope to point out through varied materials how teachers can in all courses bring about greater appreciation of democracy...