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...Pathak compared an ideal village to the human body, where disparate parts engage together to fulfill the needs of society. The transformation of a village into a collaborative entity is accomplished with the help of young married couples who are dedicated to social change. Pathak said that these volunteers teach villages to become self-sustaining by teaching them agricultural techniques and entrepreneurship. Volunteers also teach villagers dispute management and “moral values,” while reducing the influence of religious and caste divisions in the village. According to Pathak, the work of the volunteers helps the communities...
William A. Klemperer ’50, a professor emeritus and active tutor in biochemical sciences, described his own office as “exceptionally nice.” He also said that for older professors who continue to teach, the job is its own reward...
...same time you want to take his characters by the shoulders and shake them and say, “Wake up!” THC: Is there anything that someone said to you about writing that really stuck with you all these years?MR: [James Allen McPherson, who teaches at the University of Iowa,] was the first person who really pushed me to think about not just how you write, or the elements of creative writing, but also why you do it. What are you trying to accomplish by writing whatever is possessing you at the time? I guess...
...This lack of faith in government initiatives runs wide and deep, which partially explains the huge response Teach India has evoked from young professionals like Iyer. Run by the Times of India, one of India's leading English-language dailies, in collaboration with UN Volunteers, the program has already received over 100,000 applications from would-be volunteers and is struggling to accommodate them all. "Such a visionary and large-scale program has only been possible because we've been able to get the media, civil society and corporate sector together," says Adeline Aubry, a former UNV program officer under...
...Badarpur, Iyer is helping his class battle integers and geometry. There are moments of hilarity as the English-educated teacher struggles for the right Hindi terms. Next door, Riya Goenka, another Teach India volunteer and a former banker, is leading a class in spoken English to half a dozen teenagers, all of whom want to be retail or beauty-parlor assistants. This is the India in the dawn - whom economic growth has touched just enough to raise aspirations without providing avenues to fulfill those aspirations. "I believe the single most important factor here will be education," says Iyer...