Word: teachings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faculty Leaves: At any given moment, at least half of the important, tenured professors whose names brought you to Harvard will be on a leave of absence. The other half will be too busy writing books or fundraising to teach classes. The people who teach your classes do not have tenure. That is why they don't take leaves of absence. If they are good at teaching your classes, They will never get tenure, because they are too busy teaching classes to write the books that get them tenured. But not to worry. You will buy a lot of books...
...Course Catalog: The most entertaining work of fiction produced by this university. All of the classes in brackets (that is, at least half of them) are classes that professors imagine that they will want to teach next year when they return from their leaves of absence. But next year is a long way away. By next year, they will have decided only to teach a 15-person seminar for graduate students. so that they will have enough time to write their books (see above). Every year undergraduates play along with the professors by filing a Plan of Study, which...
...thought Quan could not possibly have anything to offer. "The Chinese have an incredible superiority complex," he says. "They're backward as hell, but they still believe the world revolves around China. They take great pride in their civilization simply because it is old. It is almost impossible to teach them anything. You have to do what I have done. You show by example, and they pick it up as if they were the ones who had the idea all along. You can't even get them thinking about why, if China was so far ahead of the rest...
...Chinese believe it is never too early to teach children that their elders should be respected as models of benevolence and sobriety. Children are dissuaded from expressing hostile feelings toward authority of any description. The concept of self exists only as it is expressed in terms of the other, usually the group. Even if taught at home, such discipline is inculcated most strikingly at school...
...soldiers stand before a C-130 transport plane ready to carry them to the Vietnamese front. A voice from above the plane perhaps that of their sergeant tells them that they are the best soldiers that America has to offer and that they are about to go out and teach a bunch of "communist gooks" to respect America...