Word: teached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some independent-minded faculty scorn tenure as a refuge for the insecure or the marginally competent. But the fact is that tenure or some analogous security blanket is basic to the role of the university as an arena of open inquiry. Scholars must be free within wide bounds to teach, write and research in accordance with their convictions, whether or not these convictions are congenial to their superiors or to society at large...
...focus attention on the graduate student teaching fellows who teach sections in the Core, as a rule, is surely to identify a potential weak link in the translation of the Core's high ideals into daily pedagogical practice. But to suggest greater care in hiring and training TFs actually skirts as many issues as it raises...
...writing in response to Noam S. Cohen's "review" of my recent book entitled Impact: How the Press Affects Federal Policymaking ("Missing the Mark," December 2). There is so much in his essay that misses the mark that I'm not sure where to begin. However, given that I teach at Harvard and that Cohen presumably is a student at the University I think it most important that I set the record straight on the institutional relationships which he mangled so badly, and then mention the explicit purpose of the book which he has misrepresented despite it being made explicit...
...method the group uses to teach others about the faith is "firesides," bimonthly discussion sessions open to non-Baha'is--as are most of the group's activities--which center around a particular topic such as "If There is Only One God Why Are There So Many Religions...
Even the restrictions can serve as a way ofspreading the faith, Sadeghi says. "I think thebest way to teach is to be a good example. Whenpeople see me not drinking they're curious andthat in itself is a teaching method...