The advantages of teaching in a small college

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Language

English

Source

Life without principle

Year

1968

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■ Famous educators and scholars in the U.S.A, some times prefer to work in small institutions; and their reasons are here stated. THE ADVANTAGES OF TEACHING IN A SMALL COLLEGE Unrest continues on the campus — but the restless ones are the faculty members. Professors from prestigious schools are leaving challeng ing posts to teach in small, little-known, and often im poverished institutions. But not for money. Their mo tives: a quest for academic and intellectual freedom and a moral commitment to the promotion of higher educa tion. John Monro, dean of Harvard College, announced he was resigning to head the freshman teaching program at Miles College — a predo minantly Negro institution in Birmingham. (I’m just in terested in the teaching op portunities that exist at Miles... I can’t wait to get started,” Dean Monro said). David Riesman, Harvard so ciologist, claims that the movement began as a result of the invigorating spirit as sociated with the Kennedy Administration—“People are finding it meaningful to work for something other than their own aggrandizement.” Professors are also finding it comfortable to work on a campus that isn’t pressurenacked. Robert H. Knox — formerly of Rutgers — left in 1965 to teach literature at three-year old New College in Sarasota, Fla. (class size, 12). Mr. Knox has written a novel since joining New College and is planning an other. The dream of freedom keeps Charles J. Pingat at Tusculum College — a strug gling 560 student school in Appalachia. “We offer teachers a freedom to dream and think through what it means to help create an edu cated man.” The advantages of this “reverse movement” are not limited to professors or small colleges, however. 26 Panorama Mr. Riesman, the Harvard professor, stated: “The small schools’ vital importance is that they provide countervail ing models to the big, re search - oriented universities and the prestige schools.” — From College and University Business, August, 1967. AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION “The greatest service which the American peo ple have rendered to the Filipino people, is the implantation of the American system of public in struction giving us, without restrictions of any kind, the means of developing, freely and without limit, the physical, intellectual and moral condi tions, of the individual.” — Dr, T. H, Pardo de T avera. June 1968

pages

26-27

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