Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's no question about the fact that we want to pay more attention to teaching people how to teach," says Ed School Dean Patricia A. Graham...
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...that it's simply not true that the courses taught by some of the people who have come here in the last 10 years or so, fail to attend to details in a rigorous fashion I deny that Secondly, and probably more importantly, it seems to me that to teach law without attending very importantly to the assumptions upon which legal discourse is based is radically unrigorous and indeed sloppy...
...school as a United Nations where the mere fact that there are numbers of people in certain groups out there requires that you have the same number here. My assertion is that there are plenty of non-whites and plenty of women who are qualified to teach here, and we don't have enough of those qualified people here...
Fried: Now, the word "qualified" is often used, and it is of course the central weasel word in this debate. I can't imagine what it means to be qualified to teach at the Harvard Law School, because qualification suggests some kind of minimum standard in the way that somebody might be qualified to be a policeman, or somebody might be qualified to get a driver's license. I suppose that the notion at institutions such as Harvard is not to get people who are qualified, which is a minimum standard, but to get those who are the best...