Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) is quite another species of ballplayer, the kind cursed with self-awareness. All that thinking has made him a journeyman catcher with a decade-long career bouncing through the minors like a Baltimore chop on Astroturf. Now Crash must baby-sit Nuke into maturity, teach him to connive a little in the game's moral geometry. "Strikeouts are boring. They're fascist," Crash tells Nuke. "Throw some ground balls; it's more democratic." With professors like Crash and Annie, Nuke can't miss vaulting to the bigs. Then maybe the grownups can get together and discuss...
...students struck at the foundation of the University's claim to moral authority: the freedom of faculty members to teach in their areas of expertise. Thernstrom responded with a rambling explanation in class. Although discussion continued to center on Thernstrom in The Crimson and elsewhere, no professor risked criticism by rallying strongly to a colleague's defense. Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence called for discussion of the issue at a meeting of the Faculty. No one spoke...
Allowing for future change gives such an education its inherent humility. It self-consciously confesses its own powerlessness in the face of a civilization in perpetual motion and does not pretend to teach us what we "need" to know...
...When I am asked to teach a course [of this type], the only honest answer I can give is, I am not competent," Dominguez says, but he adds that he occasionally helps advise a thesis in this area...
...says activism has not become any less important today, just more low-key. "It's a calmer type of activism, but it might be more effective," he says, pointing to the growing number of Harvard students joining the Peace Corps and PBH's own Worldteach, which sends graduates to teach in Kenya...