Word: vaux
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...stop off at Bert Vaux's Linguistics 80: "Dialectics of English," for a brush with a topic most high schools rarely mention. Though the class is notoriously simple and often taken as an elective, Vaux is a widely-known lecturer who manages to pulls in hundreds for his fall core class, Social Analysis 34: "The Knowledge of Language...
Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert R. Vaux is quoted as saying that "being a good teacher carries with it the implication that you are not a good scholar." This is certainly not true in the Physics Department, and I do not think it is true in most departments. The same clarity of thought and expression that makes a good teacher also contributes to being a good researcher and scholar. The late Richard Feynman was one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. Anyone who has seen the film of his lecture explaining the essence of quantum mechanics (which...
...Vaux believes the university does not respect the efforts professors make to be good teachers...
...Vaux is an outspoken critic of the CUE Guide's influence over a professors' reputation...
...basic scheme with tenure appears to be that teaching performance as reflected in enrollments, CUE ratings, etc. can be held against you, not for you," Vaux writes in an e-mail...