Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until the university's regular class day is done does Veterans College begin. By 10:30 p.m., when the special session ends, the double-timing Brown instructors who teach it are usually a pale shade of grey. V.C. students, who cannot join fraternities or compete for varsity teams, hit the books hard, with President Henry M. Wriston's warning in their ears: "This is not a Government gravy train...
Edward C. Cole, of the Yale Drama School, will teach production and management to the enrolled collegian actors. Other instructors from the Yale school are expected to join the faculty...
...teach something of the "tactics and strategy of science" is the aim of the book's proposed course: the suggested method, to do so by using "case histories." In an introductory chapter President Conant develops the concept of the role of science in the non-scientist's education and responsibilities. There is nothing new here. From such diverse sources as the General Education Report and the Smyth Report on Atomic Energy, the growing need for some sort of mass comprehension of science has been iterated and reiterated. When President Conant concludes that the layman can best understand science through...
...constantly growing, the U.S. has fewer public-school teachers than it had in 1939. Of these teachers many are pitifully ill-trained "emergency" amateurs. (The film shows the too common spectacle of a teacher unable to work a problem she has given students.) Still others are psychologically unfit to teach (the film shows a stupid teacher calling a pupil stupid...
...best as well as the worst teachers are fantastically overworked. Only about half those enrolled in state normal schools and teachers' colleges intend to teach;* there are graduates enough from these training schools to fill only about a third of the positions open. The situation is such that few but the timid, the incompetent, and those rare souls who have a true vocation for teaching can or will stick with such a job. The pay is disgracefully low (the average teacher gets from $800 to $3,100 a year). Socially, teachers are held in a special kind of contempt...