The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, October 16, 1981, Page Page 2, Image 2
Editorial
Worthy Teachers
Try to imagine a class without a teacher. Students in
this futuristic scenario wmilri sit
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minals ? electronic professors ? programmed to administer
lessons, tests, corrections and grades. The
computers would perform the normal functions of an
instructor while minimizing expenses and maintaining
efficiency.
Despite the advantages of the described learning
system a fundamental flaw remains. There would be no
interpersonal relationships between the teacher and the
students.
A professor is the heartbeat of a course. A good instructor
creates the course, adding the vitality needed to
pump the knowledge continuously to the student. A good
instructor is exciting but at the same time sensitive
enough to receive a student's open mind.
Students are the body of the course; they exercise the
knowledge. The union of the two parts characterizes a
working relationship that fails only when the body
neglects the heart or the heart refuses to DumD.
The Amoco Award, presented to outstanding teachers
each year, is one method of honoring a faculty member.
Students grateful to a favorite professor may take it upon
themselves to nominate the instructor for the award.
There are, however .simpler ways for a student to show
his appreciation. Just going to class and keeping absenses
to a minimum makes a statement on the professor's
behalf. The same holds for completing the assigned
course work. When a student participates in class and
creates a one-on-one relationship with an instructor, the
student is in effect saying "I'm interested." An instructor
can be satisfied with positive feedback. Perhaps the best
way to honor a prof asor is to apply his knowledge. A
student practicing what the professor preaches is a
I positive reflection of the professor's abilities.
Remember also that a student benefits when he honors
a professor by working for him. What is good for the heart
is good for the body.
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Letter To
President Sadat: I
TO THE EDITOR: from reality that the whole
world was joking about it,
I believe the American including the U.S.A. (at that
people have the right to hear time Egypt had very close
ooth sides of the issue of ties with Russia.)
^President Sadat before
'making their decision about' WHEN SADAT found out
him. that those polls were not
; Everything I have heard effective in attracting the
;or read in the American people toward him, he
media and the Gamecock himself stepped over the
has been in favor of him for constitution by announcing
his so-called peace himself the President of
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mi bia uvea viiul nave ugypi ior as long as he lived,
neglected millions of I believe this step was a
Palestinians' rights to have direct insult to human intheir
own free homeland. telligence and to the free
Since Sadat gained power choice of the Egyptians in
some eleven years ago, his selecting their president for
governments had polls the next generations. After
showing false results of not oppostion and dissatisfaction
less than 98 percent in favor reached its peak during the
of him being the president, past few months and the U.S.
These results were so far media started showing the
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He Wasn't Perfect
Egyptians demonstrating civilization and relatively
against Sadat in the great degree of freedom
universities, mosques and compared to the extreme ?
streets ail over Egypt. dictatorships that are still
Sadat didn't try to ease the prevailing in the Arab
situation by giving the countries.
people more freedom, on the The assassination of any
contrary, as we all know, he person doesn't make him a
closed down the newspapers, good person, but we are
magazines, mosques, always emotionally moved
churches and universities in. to remember only the
most parts of Egypt. positive points in his
character and actions. I
SADAT went to the ex- believe we should be more
treme dictatorship when he objective and less one-sided
ordered the arrest of the about any issue so that our
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leaders, authors, Muslim value to the public.
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