Word: teach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dreary Standstill. Despite Mao's order to reopen the schools last year, many are still closed; those that are open teach little more than Maoist slogans. China's cultural life has been brought to a dreary standstill by the Cultural Revolution; not a single book of any major value has been published for two years, and the only new play that showed promise, The Madman of the New Age, was condemned by the critics as an oblique attack...
...academic matters, student critiques of their professors are becoming commonplace. Since most professors cling to the shibboleth that letting a colleague observe their teaching would be an invasion of "academic freedom," student opinions ought to be incorporated into promotion procedures if good teaching is ever to get its just rewards. As it is now, teaching is judged mainly by grapevine gossip. "I have no idea how well my associates teach-I've never seen them," concedes Chicago Humanities Professor Herman Sinaiko. A large university simply could not function, however, if professors were subject to the total-and predictably whimsical...
Shaw, who will become professor of Turkish History at U.C.L.A. next year, expressed dissatisfaction with his position at Harvard. "The Middle East program is not developing as I had hoped. Here I have to teach language as well as history. At U.C.L.A. they have separate people to teach language," he said. Shaw has been at Harvard for ten years and is an associate of Dudley House...
...concludes with the warning that "unless we learn to cultivate better our powers of substantive as well as formal rationality, and our courage to teach with candor what we know to be true, or just, our present foreign policies will remain without effective challenge...
...there is a war going on, you thought, and everyone around you knew that the war was bad when they remembered it; so you thought, what is a teach-in, a be-in, a mill-in, a laugh-in when people are dying. And you remembered, and got just a little sick at your own smugness and aloofness and cursed yourself for looking at the tight pants when you should have been doing something, but what you wondered and wonder, and the revolutionary refrain from the man in the business suit played upon your mind...