Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this plan suffers from the same narrowness as the Committee's recommendations to raise salaries and appoint an Assistant Dean of Teaching Fellows. It will do no good to create financial inducements for graduate students to teach when the whole structure of academic values at Harvard argues against taking classroom chores seriously...
...report pointed out, the quality of teaching fellows varies greatly from department to department; it varies even more, however, from course to course. Professors who take their own teaching seriously tend to demand similar devotion from their teaching fellows, while those who regard time spent in the classroom as distasteful or unimportant are unlikely to require rigid standards in their assistants...
...more pressing in recent years. A profusion of government and foundation research grants, especially in the sciences; the creation, at many universities, of prestigious professorships which require little or no teaching; the increasing availability of sabbaticals and leaves at other campuses-all these take Faculty members out of the classroom and reinforce the belief that, both before and after tenure, it is research, not teaching, that counts...
...their leaders, a point that Charles de Gaulle, now the senior Western statesman in point of tenure, has not overlooked. A cartoon in the satirical French Weekly Le Canard Enchainé shows Pupils Erhard and Douglas-Home seated before Schoolmaster De Gaulle as Johnson, in short pants, enters the classroom. "Sit down, Johnson," says De Gaulle. "I am going to repeat for you the lesson I have been giving to your little comrades...
...York City Superintendent Calvin Gross [Nov. 15] appears to be a laser beam cutting into the Stygian morass called American education. If this is really true, I may be coaxed into returning to the classroom firing line as a teacher...