Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rain-streaked faces of the speakers blurred in the gathering darkness. A bleary-eyed Yerevan doctor in a fur-collared coat who had worked for four whole days without sleep. A bespectacled economist who told of digging out one lone survivor from among 48 corpses in a Leninakan classroom. An airport worker who had held a dying child in his arms. A grizzled old man in a shabby winter coat simply shook his head from side to side. "There is nothing left there," he said. "Nothing. Everything must be built from scratch...
...graduate student at Harvard from 1968 to 1972, Rampersad says his experience in academia has been typical of his generation. While at Harvard, Rampersad for the first time encountered Black literature in the classroom--as a section leader for Roger Rosenblatt's course on Afro-American fiction, which was the first course of its kind taught at Harvard...
...already gone into Widener on my own and read [Black authors]," he says. "But Rosenblatt's course was the first time that literature was brought into the classroom for me, and I just kept on with...
Intelligence--and by extension, depth of character--is defined almost solely by academic performance. Determinants such as grades, scholarships and SAT scores are used as the definitive barometers of an individual's ability to think and reason, more than as measures of what has been learned in a classroom. This has the unfortunate result of making intelligence only a matter of education, and downplays the roles of wit, imagination and curiosity as equal indications of intelligence and character not generally measured by cold academic statistics...
Different people learn in different ways. Some minds cannot be inspired in a sterile classroom and cannot learn from lecture or rote memorization. Some people can be better educated through an active process, whether it is an intense discussion, dramtization or hands-on experience...