Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intolerance does not threaten the radical sociologists, the general problem of working in a traditional university does. Radical sociologists say that Harvard trains its students to function as productive members of capitalist society, that it inculcates a bourgeois ideology, and that the hierarchical relationships in the university and the classroom reflect the hierarchy of capitalist society...
...student body is markedly homogeneous in terms of age and social background, then perhaps Harvard educators should study extension school education more closely with the idea of integrating it into the College. Maybe only when people such as the policeman in Kilson's course are present in the undergraduate classroom will college discussions take on the edge of reality they now so often lack...
...twelve years and was twice elected to Congress. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she belongs to the state's largest ethnic group. Her husband Tom, a retired principal, is also an Italian American. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Mount Hoiyoke, Grasso speaks the language of the classroom as easily as she does the Piedmont dialect of Italy on the front porch...
Since he came to power, the Shah has run his nation as a virtual police state. Iran's 70,000-member secret police force keeps tight control on political action and even thoughts; its web is wide enough to include at least one agent in every university classroom...
...teacher can overcome a child's fear of writing a bad poem or being criticized or ridiculed by reading poems aloud stressing their intrinsic value, and withholding the writer's name. Never change a line, says Koch, just ask the writer what he meant. He suggest going around the classroom "encouraging good lines and discouraging wayward ideas." In his second book on teaching children great poetry called Rose, where Did You Get That Red, he has this to say for the class atmosphere...