And we are of course recognizing the folks in this room with awards for excellence in teaching and mentoring.

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Such a threat to the old way of teaching has doubtless made professors everywhere spit sherry onto the common-room carpet.

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He began teaching, long before he had a degree, over in a one-room schoolhouse amid the hollows of Overton County in a place known informally as Booze, and soon became principal in a community closer to Carthage called Pleasant Shade, living where he could, sometimes in the homes of his students, who took to calling him Professor.

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It may turn out that capped fees, central control over student numbers and all the paraphernalia designed to allow only a little room for enterprise do not work that creating a half-market in university teaching is no more manageable than becoming a little bit pregnant.

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