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In Touch with Students... A Philosophy for Teachers

by John R. Campbell, University of Missouri. 1972. Educational Affairs Pub., P. O. Box 248, Columbia, MO65201. 367 pp.

Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing

ABSTRACT

by John R. Campbell, University of Missouri. 1972. Educational Affairs Pub., P. O. Box 248, Columbia, MO 65201. 367 pp.

As the subtitle suggests, this book is a philosophy for teachers. One is amazed in reading the 23 chapters to find specifically pointed out and emphasized the many facets of the art of teaching employed by the dedicated teacher. A university teacher upon reading this text is impelled to evaluate his own achievements and face up to his shortcomings or be encouraged by his successes. The many anxieties, problems, confrontations, doubts, and disciplines of university teaching are discussed fully.

The author lists the foremost objectives of today's teacher as follow: (1) to create student awareness of world problems and needs, (2) to develop student competence in a chosen profession or specialty, (3) to cause students to relate their skills to the needs of society, and (4) to foster the desire to solve the problems of mankind.