Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the Barker Center is not intended to replace the classroom space of Sever or Emerson, it will provide additional rooms for smaller seminars, as well the large meeting rooms in the former Great Hall, according to Elizabeth L. Randall, capital project manager in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Listening classes, however, are populated by gatherers. The students come to gather information and then to sort out that which they think is most valuable. Because the law of scarcity does not apply to information (it is in economic terms a "public good," its supply within the classroom is not exhausted or even diminished by one person's use) the atmosphere in listening classes is less overtly competitive. Triumph for the gatherer is a far less public affair than it is for the hunter. It comes from recognition of the breadth of opinions and ideas to which one has been...
...psychology class all without the aggressive and adversarial undertones which pervade my department. In short, being a hunter is far more unpleasant than it needs to be, if it needs to be at all. The humility of the listening class and of the gatherer himself contribute to a classroom atmosphere in which students are far less likely to sweat and squirm as well as scream and sneer...
...rant here about the Core and a rave there about shopping period, but overall I feel much more justified in simply avoiding academics altogether and talking about extracurriculars, campus politics or administrative action. This week, though, I have been stirred to actually delve into the world of the classroom...
...higher education, a $1,500 tax credit for two years of college or vocational school, tax-free iras that can be used to finance college tuition, a plan to mobilize a million reading tutors, a $5 billion program to fix decrepit schools and a program to connect every classroom to the Internet by 2000. There is virtually no chance that a G.O.P. Congress will agree to all this. But Clinton can find enough votes in the House and Senate if he accepts a pet program of the G.O.P.'s (and one that's anathema to the National Education Association): providing...