Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questions posed by the jury. Others who have been active interlocutors include Lila Bard, 65, a retired Army officer; Enas Broadway, 62, an employee in the National Library of Medicine; George W. Stockton Sr., 55, a Defense Department supply technician; and Naomi R. Williams, 58, a retired teacher and elevator operator...
...would be alright," Mrs. Mao was dismissed on grounds that specific federal funding for East Asians Studies had not been renewed. On the return of that funding last fall, reasons for dismissal were given as her subjection to Harvard's eight-year rule which in essence says that a teacher must be given tenure after eight teaching years or be released [Mrs. Mao is currently in her eighth lectureship year after four "non-credit" years as a Chinese language drill instructor], and the department's inability to afford another long-term financial commitment associated with tenure (even with the federal...
...virtues appropriate to the ruling class. His greatest disappointment was his own failure to gain high office and from it, implement his "Way," but he passed on his theories of governing and Goodness through his disciples. Three centuries after his death, Confucius was no longer a moral teacher, but a legendary sage, "The Master"--a status he never sought--and his teachings were finally intertwined with state policy, even though morality...
...revolution emerge as more than trite exhortations. A Chinese worker must be urged to "Dare to question"--for 2500 years, Confucians have been telling workers just the opposite. In these times of disturbing stability, of alarming complacency, of unsettling bureaucracy, Confucius is once more being used as a teacher. He warns of mistakes like those in the past...
...right and things which are wrong; things which demean and things which uplift; men who are true to themselves, and men who live a lie; acts which are cruel and wrong, and acts which are just and right. "A writer," comments Solzhenitsyn in The First Circle, "is a moral teacher; and this he is and has been, at the risk, and nearly at the loss of, his life. His call to conscience should be a call to our consciences as well...