Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disappointment with the administration's hasty resort to police force is acute. I had hoped that openness, patience and a willingness to learn from, as well as teach students might characterize Harvard. Greatness like character, has constantly to be re-earned. The swift call for force is not only unbecoming in educational leaders, but inexcusable folly as the present student-faculty reaction confirms...
...What we're trying to do is make possible occupational deferments for those who teach at Harvard under the regulation of the Selective Service System providing deferments for critical occupations," Sisson said...
Generous Offers. Firms in New York are paying their new attorneys as much as $15,000 to start, and the rate in other cities is not far below. But growing numbers of the nation's brightest law students are ignoring such generous offers and instead are choosing to teach, clerk for a judge, take a fellowship for further study, or work in a poverty pro gram. Some are drawn to such work be cause it offers a better chance of escaping the draft. But many are motivated by a genuine desire to help others. The fact that increasing numbers...
THERE IS, furthermore, a moral argument that must be made against disruption of classes. This argument need not be based on the simple-minded assertion that the preservation of the right to teach and learn within the University is an absolute moral imperative. It is possible to envision circumstances where this right would come into direct conflict with the prior right of people to defend their lives and their freedom: a lecture on quality control techniques involved in the production of napalm is not, in the context of this country's policies abroad, absolutely entitled to protection against protesting students...
...that you are failing us--in failing to learn and respect discomforting facts; in failing to learn how to think (it is easier to complain); in using violence to shut down colleges; in shamefully denying that freedom of others to study and to teach; in barbarously slandering and abusing and shouting down those who disagree with you; in looting, stealing and defiling; in failing to see how much more complicated social problems are than you blindly assume; in acting out of an ignorance for which idealism is no excuse, and a hysteria for which youth is no defense. "Understanding...