Teaching for the Future

Abstract

IN FIRST thinking about this topic, the title selected was as listed on your program “Teaching for the Future,” but there was more to the title—a “so what” was added. The reason for this negative addition was the quote “A close look at the college-educated people in the United States is enough to dispel any notion that our institutions of higher learning are doing a good job of liberal education” (Changing Times, 1962), and the statement “He is a school teacher, which means he is an underpaid drudge. Even a politician stands higher because power in the street seems less of a mockery than power in the classroom” (Barzun, 1959). Undergraduate college teaching is and has been the most talked about, the most maligned and least done about area in the realm of poultry science. This is not specifically the fault of anyone, but rather the result of several…