Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Foner's analysis of the Republican Party, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War. But the discussion quickly turned from Foner to Clifford Geertz, a cultural anthropologist that none of the dozen or so history concentrators assembled in a Mather classroom had ever heard...
...assignment both more challenging and more realistic; it helped them learn as much as it tantalized them with visions of wealth. Just like the elementary school assignment in which you have to write a business letter which will actually be mailed, Edelman was doing his best to make the classroom exercise jive with the real world. And in the corporate universe, takeovers and raids are not intellectual enterprises; they're business ventures which seek to turn a profit for the raider...
NONETHELESS, the Columbia Business School dean and many of his colleagues found something unsettling about Edleman's pedagogical techniques. The classroom is supposed to be a sacred refuge for higher pursuits Professors should not be in the practice of having their students turn a profit on their final exams. The paradox is a diffcult one: Edelman was literally teaching his students well, and yet he seemed to be engaging in practices inapproriate for an academic setting...
...least nice to see that they have some regrets about this state of affairs--that a Business School such as Columbia still is commited to the acadmeic ideal enough that a professor such as Edleman is not allowed to use his students as consultants and his classroom as an office...
...extent that business schools are sponsored by universities, they inevtiably make an institution whose aim is to teach the liberal arts seem somewhat anachronistic. Why is a classroom sacred? Why should it be something other than just a place to learn the tools for a future career? For reasons which are not easy to define, it is good to believe that a classroom must be kept uncontaminated by careerism. And thus it is nice to hear Dean Burton waxing metaphysical on the sanctity of learning, even as he heads a school whose purpose is to train businessmen...