Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, June 8, 1961, page 32 (of 50)
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How About Honors
PHOTOGRAPH BY CARL BAKER LAST SPRING at my alma mater, Williams College, I started an Educational Experiment (since I started it, I get to put it in capital letters). It's on a modest scale, certainly, but an Educational Experiment all the same. But before I tell you what I did, let me tell you why I did it. It's beginning to seem that you don't really have to be a clotpoll to win honor in America these days, but it doesn't hurt any. We salute athletes of remarkable agility and starlets of improbable dimensions. Dress well, swing a 40-ounce bat effectively, have more than two children at any one time, marry frequently, drive an automobile very fast—do any of these things in the America of 1961, and riches and acclaim are yours. In New York we have a Miss Subway; all you have to do to be that is ride underground and smile. (We even have a lady tenement owner whom the press has dubbed affectionately, "Queen of the Slumlords.") In short, for a nation that did away with patents of nobility right in its Constitution, we manage to have quite a mixed bag of royalty running around. SUBURBIA TODAY But, not to put too fine a point on it, our present nobility is hardly an aristocracy of the intellect. We fix our avid attention on the 42-inch chest and give short shrift to those classroom magicians who can bring a whole five-foot shelf to life. And one [?]y I began to wonder why, if we'll take a young college sophomore with good synapses and call him an all-American, we won't pay any attention to the professor of American literature who might just make a human being of him. Now beyond any question, the first place we've got to start honoring our teachers is right in their honoraria. We pay our h[?] - school teachers $5,110 on the national average; our college teachers $6,810, and tell them, "Turn my boy into an educated man so he can earn $25,000 a year selling insurance" (or practicing law). Surely a lot of our teacher troubles in this country will disappear when we stop demanding that our best men and women sacrifice earning potentials of thousands of dollars for [?]e privilege of trying to educate our offspring. Yet teachers, even more than most people, can't live by bread alone. And oddly enough, in our system, it's remarkably difficult to tell a good teacher he's good. We fix his salary on the basis of training and tenure; certainly there's no dollar differential between the competent and the incompetent teacher unless the latter i[?]o abysmally bad as to manage, against all likelihood, to get himself fired. The student should be the main source of a good teacher's satisfaction. Yet student respect and acclaim, which the good teacher values beyond emeralds, is immensely difficult to express. Should a youngster put a bold face on it and actually tell a prof he likes and adm[?]es him, he's liable to the accusation of what we once called "apple-polishing." (Some of my younger friends tell me they've