Word: teach
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Selling stock would also be inappropriate for a university on other grounds. Institutions of learning depend on preserving the freedom of their professors and students to teach and learn as they think best. Over the years, we have gradually persuaded outside groups, including corporations, not to try to use financial leverage to impose their views upon our campuses. We cannot expect these organizations to continue exercising such restraint if we insist on resorting to boycotts in an effort to impose our will on them. Once powerful groups in the society feel free to use economic sanctions to force their opinions...
Johnson says he feels most social service is by its nature political, although people involved might not think so. "If a counselor just has a good way to teach the kids to read and write, that's political. That's revolutionary because keeping them ignorant is oppressive," Johnson says...
Instead, Bok emphasized the potential role computers would play in transforming education indirectly. He said that when faculty begin to teach students via software rather than lectures, they will have to analyze how students learn, how they most effectively comprehend difficult concepts and how they remain interested...
...movement was the same--to get Harvard to divest of the $400 million it has invested in corporations that do business in South Africa. Last spring, for the most part, students tried to paint themselves as a pragmatic group that intends, through a moderate, carefully planned program of teach-ins and demonstrations, to persuade the University to divest. In addition, the group has adopted a campaign approach--complete with computers and press releases--to build up the movement and further its goals...
...schools reopen this month, the number of computers in U.S. classrooms has reached some 1 million (up from 630,000 last year). More and more of them will be used to teach the sort of practical skills that Angie found profitable: financial modeling, data-base management and word processing. Explains Marc Tucker, director of a Carnegie Corp. study on the subject: "Increasingly, schools view computers as intellectual assistants, as tools in the hands of kids, not as things to be programmed or to deliver instructional material...