Weighty Responsibility Research Articles

Narrative Criticism and the Gospel of Mark

W ayne Booth, a prominent literary critic of our time, has written: do not think that if the is not saved, all is lost. For me, one good reading of one good passage is worth as much as anything there is, because the person achieving it is living fully at that time.... I don't see how any such person should prove useless to the world (1974:xii). Most biblical critics would drink to such an affirmation (some would simply say amen!) despite our very weighty responsibility for saving the world. Revering the written word, peering reflectively into a text, and being deeply satisfied with the insights which it yields are common experiences of biblical critics.

In-service training for child care workers

The multiple functions and weighty responsibilities of child care workers require specialized knowledge, skills, objectivity, and self-awareness. However, educational and in-service training resources to meet the child care worker's professional needs continue to be limited. This paper describes a child care workers training program at the Jewish Child Care Association of New York. It is based on a conviction that the child care worker is a therapeutic agent, not a custodial person. Its seminars and workshops are designed for child care workers at different levels of experience and for interdisciplinary groups, and are also adapted to a variety of group care settings and a diversity of the client population.

Points and Viewpoints: Welcome to a New Editor

OUR new editor of “Reviews and Evaluations” is Richard R. Eakin. It pleases us to welcome him to this post. He brings to THE MATHEMATICS TEACHER. excellent ability, genuine dedication, and a keen interest in this kind of work. We greatly appreciate his willingness to assume this weighty responsibility and step into the breach caused last March by the untimely death of Harold Tinnappel.

The Role of the College and University in the Preparation of Foreign Language Teachers

When your distinguished Secretary invited me to speak to you today, we spoke casually of a factual report on the language development feature of the National Defense Education Act. It is tempting to rehearse for you what this Act has already done and what it shows certain promise of doing for the development of modern foreign language study in the United States; to report to you that only a year after the Act's passage, more than 50,000 youngsters are getting better instruction as a consequence of institute training for their teachers; that the so-called “neglected” languages have been given so much attention that French, German, and Spanish now feel distinctly neglected; and that more money has been committed for research in the teaching of modern foreign languages in this past year than has been spent for this purpose in all recorded history. But all of this can be read (or told to you by the Prophet Mildenberger and his disciples, who, so far as I can see, are stationed at every corner of this hotel) and I prefer to direct my remarks to a single aspect of the complex language development program in which we are jointly engaged; one that I trust has great common interest for this audience, and one that in its implications suggests some weighty responsibilities for your profession: the role of the college and university in the preparation of language teachers.

Operative dentistry for children With especial attention to cavity preparation in the deciduous teeth

I F THE dental profession ever fills its rightful claim to attention and importance, it must give more adequate consideration and service to the child patient. Every outstanding professional man works untiringly to prevent and eliminate the cause and the need for his chosen life work. Dentistry for children is not a new subject in the annals of dental history, but it is a phase of the profession’s obligation which has been indifferently tolerated, temporarily treated, profesElionally apologized for, and more often, honestly or dishonestly, fabriated about, in discussions with the laity. True, there has been little help to be gained from textbooks or from dental literature except in the last few years. The dental college undergraduate and graduate experience have proved almost warthless and a barren source of workable, helpful knowledge until some five to eight years ago. I am happy to see the profession come to this day when we, as doctors of dental surgery, cease to theorize and philosophize, but actually study, plan and passionately use what we can and do know. As professional men, who have a large part in shaping human destiny and adding to the length, comfort, and enjoyment of life, we have no alternative in this matter but honestly and adequately to inform ourselves, and conscientiously to serve the child. We are bound by every reason to work for children. We believe children to be aar greatest asset and the hope of our civilization. We are the only professional group authorized, licensed, and protected by law to furnish this much needed and important service. The dental profession has made tremendous strides in the last century, and it is but fitting that the theme for this meeting should be “ The transition of dentistry from a craft to a highly specialized profession. ” Today we are not craftsmen, tradesmen, plodders in a workaday world, but men with a vision who are sought out as leaders to help others maintain and obtain good haalth# We have a weighty responsibility, one each man must answer for himself, for dentistry has ceased to be a craft, a mechanical art, and is respected beuause dentists can and do prevent disease, and remedy many of the alarming path conditions aft the intelligent

The Engineer and Civilization

To sum up the whole matter, the engineer, either as an individual or as a collective type, is simply a link in the chain of human progress-a chain the links of which, in one form or another, run back into a past removed from our own time by tens of thousands of years, to go to no higher figures. With the trend of human progress as it now is, he seems, moreover, to be a very necessary link. He has taken upon himself the peculiar function of developing and translating into use for the needs of civilization the constructive materials of the earth and the inorganic energies of nature, and in connection with the exercise of such function he has acquired peculiar and weighty duties and responsibilities.