Word: teaching
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Also, as the highest ranking political official ever to teach at the K-School be can take some credit for creating a more favorable attitude on the part of administrators toward hiring "practioners" as opposed to "professors". Calling Dukakis's teaching very successful. Manny Carballo, an instructor of Public Policy who worked closely with the former governor, says that Dukakis "added validity to the conception that someone does not have to have a Ph.D. to teach...
Other pressing issues Bok deals with include universities assisting foreign governments which may be repressive in character, university investments in South Africa, university boycotts of companies with suspect business customs, university acceptance of gifts from donors who made their money through exploitative means, the university's responsibility to teach ethics, and the university's obligations to the local community. These are all complex matters and this review cannot do justice to them. Bok attacks them directly, using a balanced, legalistic style of argumentation which considers conflicting positions and then renders a verdict in judicious fashion...
...Critic George Steiner believes "the computer generation will be out of touch with certain springs of human identity and creativity," he is wrong. Programming a computer is primarily an artistic and not a scientific activity. When I teach my students computer skills, I am offering them a new way to be creative. The art of writing programs is akin to the art of writing poetry...
There is a restlessness about Moyers' career, a sense of peaks unsealed but longed for. Is it the political urge, which has tempted him several times? Moyers denies it: "I have taken the vow. When I finish all this, I hope to go teach." But he knows that people can get confused by his various styles of commentary-as advocate (Alaska pipeline story), as impressionistic reporter (Poland, El Salvador), or doing "straight-into-the-camera essays," sometimes punctuated by pictures...
...columnists, the author steps in with scattershot malice. He tells Women's Wear Daily that Actress Alexis Smith, star of the national touring company, "can't carry a tune in a goddamn sack." The antics end at a sad and quiet Maryland retreat, "where they teach you not to drink whisky...