Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Improve health, educational and scientific-training facilities throughout the hemisphere, with strong emphasis on programs that will wipe out contagious diseases and teach Latin Americans the basic skills required for industrial jobs...
...Taiwan and Australia has supplied more than 10 million books to Vietnamese schools-to the considerable irritation of the V.C. One Communist woman in black pajamas appeared at a school in the hamlet of Thoi Binh, looked at the books and warned Teacher Tran Thi Tarn: "You must not teach these things." Despite the warning, Mme. Tam, a mother of eight, goes on with her work. Says she: "It is important that our children have knowledge-then perhaps they will have a better life than...
...Ph.D. at Harvard in the humanities or the social sciences takes, on the average, seven and a half years. Many students would like to get the degree more quickly, but there are too many obstacles to sidestep. Some students teach more than they would like to because they need the money. Others cannot refuse a thesis advisor who asks his graduate student to spend "just one more year" as his teaching assistant. And everyone spends a great deal of time working and re-working his thesis because, as Dean Ford suggested, "perhaps we place too much emphasis on the thesis...
...humanities and social sciences will receive a Graduate Prize Fellowship -- a four or five-year grant which commits the student to a well-structured Ph.D. plan. He will be required to complete his oral examination by the end of his second year, and he will not be permitted to teach until his third year. The Graduate Prize Fellow may teach for at most two years, while some graduate students at Harvard feel compelled to be section men for as long as five years...
...study make this type of Ph.D. reform an excellent idea. But the fact that the plan would work well for some does not mean that it would work well for all. There are some students who want an unstructured, perhaps even relaxed, graduate school career. Some like to teach sections for more than two years, and become very good at it and popular with undergraduates. While some structure is desirable, to attempt to give the Ph.D. program the rigidity of the M.D. or LL.B. is to ignore the distinction between the professional and the academic...