Most Ph.D.s who get instructors' jobs in U.S. colleges have had little or no training in teaching. Generally not required to take courses in education as grade and high-school teachers are, they are expected to learn pedagogical techniques as they go along. To help them over the bumps and bogs in the path of hard experience, Radcliffe Dean Bernice B. Cronkhite last week had turned out a Handbook for College Teachers (Harvard University Press; $3).
The Handbook contains snippets of homely advice from more than a dozen veteran Harvard professors including
French Scholar Andre...
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