Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...With that in mind she also doubled the number of classroom hours required for all graduate degrees, and so far students have not complained.) At smaller universities like Amiens, Perpignan and Avignon, the minister wants faculty members to concentrate on lower-level courses. Says she: "You can't teach everything everywhere." That rationale, reasonable though it may be, has stirred deep passions in France, where educators and students fear a return to the severe restrictions on educational access that touched off a nationwide protest of workers and students...
TIME WAS when the peaceful atom was hot news--the weeklies all ran cover stories on the magical power source that would be too cheap to meter. And week after week in the 1950s, as the first plants were built and tested, there were diagrams and articles to teach an ignorant but machine-obsessed audience how protons and such could tumble around and produce enough current to run every Osterizer across America until all the world's avocados had been turned into guacamole thrice over, all the clothes washed and dried faster than they could be soiled, all the cheese...
...addition to her course on federal policy toward women, Bane said she will teach a "quantitative methods course" to the K-School's City and Regional Planning students, and a course on education policy open to all K-School students
...hair into place. In interviews, he sometimes seems flippant to the point of arrogance. In private conversation, he has a marked fondness for first-person pronouns. In public appearances, however, he can exhibit flashes of deep humility. A crowd of miners in Jastrzebie last October asked Walesa who could teach them democracy. His answer: "Who? Not Lesio [a diminutive of Lech], for he is too small, too stupid. Yourselves. Everybody." Yet he can be remarkably highhanded when chairing union meetings, often interrupting speakers in mid-sentence and imposing his own views...
...values (these days, even elementary skills in how to raise children) vanish into the cracks between generations. Anthropologist Margaret Mead believed ten years ago that the West had entered an age so headlong in its rush toward the future that the old no longer had much of value to teach the young. Well, the future no longer seems quite so wildly original. But even in rigidly traditional epochs, it was human nature for one generation to reject, dynamite and otherwise ridicule the structures and ideas of the previous generation in order to make room for its own. Often enough, when...