Word: teaching
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...sure, Goldman sees changes as well. He remembers taking a course on the United States and world affairs. "I teach that course now, with Stanley Hoffmann. And it's a very hard course today," he says, "Back then...
These were among the long-range political consequences of Dday, but all this was largely unknown to the men who bled on Omaha Beach. D-day was first of all a battle between two great forces, and the lessons that it teaches, 40 years later, are fundamentally the lessons that all great battles teach, over and over...
Infact, it probably is pretty good But is it, as Rosovsky glowingly concludes, "not just a very good college education, but an outstanding one?" Rosovsky's optimism stems from his assessment of the number of senior faculty that teach undergraduates, the availability of relatively small courses and students' assessments of their courses. On all counts, he concludes. Harvard defies the myth that it is a "large, uncaring and anomie-producing research university...
...conviction, the evidence Rosovsky produces fails to back fully his enthusiastic claims. More than half of all undergraduate enrollments are in courses taught by senior faculty, the report cites-ostensibly dispelling myths that senior faculty are inaccessible and teach only graduate students. But as Rosovsky himself notes, about four-fifths of this contact comes in courses with more than 40 students. Later in the report, Rosovsky does urge senior faculty to teach a section for their lecture courses, but even this improvement would offer close faculty contact to only a handful of students in the course...
...advanced industries, the government has been extolling free enterprise. Mitterrand himself has formally endorsed "the right to make a fortune." Captains of industry like Schlumberger's Jean Riboud are featured heroically on the covers of traditionally leftist magazines. As Sociologist Crozier notes, former Premier Raymond Barre "tried to teach respect for business, but no one listened. Now that the Socialists are doing the same thing, it is beginning to have an impact...