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...anyone who has spent time speaking with Israeli citizens knows that the leader or such a community must fully pursue any legitimate proposal for peace. The impact of the military on the Israeli psyche is difficult to grasp for someone who is not personally involved in this community. National defense is every Israeli's responsibility, and so (with few exceptions) every 18-year-old must serve. In addition, all men serve in the reserves until they reach...
...discontent that Harvard undergraduates feel with the quality of graduate Teaching Fellows ("Teaching the Teaching Fellows," March 9, 1994) is badly misplaced. It should be no surprise to undergraduates that the TFs who lead section and supervise labs often have a weaker grasp on the material presented than the professors who teach the class. Certainly it is no surprise to the TFs, most of whom were undergraduates themselves not too long ago. What is a surprise is that students who pay (or rather, whose parents pay) almost $25,000 a year for an education are willing to accept such...
...procedure done by interns. Likewise, students should be taught by teachers, not teaching assistants--or "Teaching Fellows" as some places euphemistically label them. At the moment it appears that Harvard students are relatively content with this expensive system as long as their TFs speak English and have a grasp of the material. It also leads one to suspect that the $25,000 a year for a "Harvard education" places more emphasis on the "Harvard" than it does on the "education". Mark E. Duckenfield Department of Government
...have to consider whether a [graduate]student who has a lesser grasp of English cancompensate by the other things they bring tosection, like insight into a particular languageor region," Baird Professor of Science Gary J.Feldman said after a Faculty Council meetingearlier this month...
...proposal, none of which are valid. As Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences John E. Dowling said, "Language skills cannot be used to judge someone's teaching capability." His sentiments were echoed by Baird Professor of Science Gary J. Feldman, who observed that TFs can compensate for a "lesser grasp of English" through other attributes...