Word: teaches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...affirm the right of teachers and students to be free to teach and learn in their classrooms. Accordingly, we unequivocally condemn any and all disruptions which interfere with this central principle of academic freedom of decency," it states...
...myself, I can only say that this has been a week of sickening events and discouraging discoveries about how some minds work. If the Harvard community, students and faculty alike, do not recognize that what is not at stake is the freedom to teach, to inquire and to learn--if that community sees in the present situation only an opportunity to attack the Governing Boards, the President, or some other part of the institution--there will be little point in pretending much longer that this is a real university. The buildings will remain but the soul will be gone...
...radical teaching fellows also held departmental meetings yesterday. Seventy-five teaching fellows signed a petition declaring themselves on strike, refusing to teach or grade until the seven SDS demands are met. Sixty-five more teaching fellows at those meetings reportedly supported strike for other reasons...
About 150 of the College's more than 900 teaching fellows voted unanimously at a meeting yesterday to go on strike and not to teach their regularly scheduled academic classes at least through Monday night...
...Christlike behavior in a world never conspicuously able to follow Christ's example. For Vonnegut, man's worst folly is a persistent attempt to adjust, smoothly, rationally, to the unthinkable, to the unbearable. Misused, modern science is its prime instrument. "I think a lot of people teach savagery to their children to survive," he observed recently. Then he added, saying it all, from Cain and Abel to the cold war, "They may need the savagery, but it's bad for the neighbors...