Word: teacher
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...many years, taught by Pian, Prof. John M. Ward (retired last year), and myself. The chief upper-level course for those interested in the field is Music 185, Topics in Ethnomusicology, offered every year since 1979, most often jointly by Pian, Shapiro and Ward (thus affording an extraordinary student-teacher ratio!), and varying in its focus from year to year, so that it is repeatable only by students who so desire. It tends to attract not only music majors and graduate students, but also anthropology students and those from areas like Far Eastern Studies, Folklore and Mythology, and the like...
...young person with integrity would want to become a scholar," unless he or she is willing to reveal his or her sources of funding and sponsorship, and to indicate whether the sponsor has been granted a right of pre-publication review. A scholar, especially when he is also a teacher, has a commitment to openness and honesty in his relation with readers and students. Concealment deprives them of an important element in evaluating research; selective concealment is a form of deception. Teaching and scholarship require trust; trust, in turn, requires openness...
...addition to the fact that students' political beliefs should not be put on the line in class, the teacher-student relationship is inherently a kind of power relationship. And that inequality--normally not an issue in the classroom--becomes a source of coercion when students' political beliefs are sounded...
...twelve jets. The constant barrage yielded few moments of uninterrupted serenity and nothing resembling hermitism. "They remind me of a bunch of little gnats, just swarming all around," says Sharon Galbreath, who chairs the Grand Canyon branch of the Sierra Club. Concurs Fred Carrington, a high school physics teacher who led a group of students into the canyon this spring: "You almost feel as if you haven't left civilization...
EVERGREEN. On opening day in September 1971, the library stood only half built, its books stored in a brewery. "We didn't have any buildings or dorms," recalls Physics Teacher Byron Youtz. Some classes met in local churches, and one convened on a lakeshore. Faculty members had no promise of tenure, and the curriculum consisted--as it still does--of Socratic seminars, Great Books courses and the like. Instead of grades, students got written evaluations, and still do. The original student body of 1,000 included a fair number of hippie types, to the dismay of the down-home state...