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This may come as a surprise, but I and many of my teacher colleagues don't believe in compulsory education. We'd much rather spend our precious time and resources on students who want to be in the classroom. We cannot afford to be surrogate parents to the wayward. I observed that the parent factor was noticeably absent from your article. When parents start acting like grownups and force their children to be accountable, perhaps then things will change...
...senior lecturer, Payzant will convert his experience in educational administration into material suitable for the classroom...
...will stick to two very different but applicable definitions: a) college is an academic experience, or b) college is a pre-professional experience. For decades, Harvard students have complained that the College does not fulfill the former expectation. From ignorant Teaching Fellows to inaccessible professors to a dysfunctional curriculum, classroom complaints from students are well-documented and well-publicized. Often these claims are unfounded or exaggerated, but the important fact is that they—despite their abundance—have had no noticeable effect on the outside world’s perception of Harvard’s polished veneer...
...stars, my intellectual star, my artistic star, and hope those stars converge into one.” While embracing the magic of what she studies and creates, Chadbourne is also an educator and a scholar. In discussing her work with students, she says, “In the classroom, we look at so many aspects of meaning and choice in expression—ways of constructing meaning through stories, deliberate and otherwise.” Regarding the function of studying stories, she states, “Stories have tremendous relevance to how we understand social constructions, gender relationships, power, history...
...rigor isn’t there,” Blackley says. And indeed, U.S. News and World Report currently ranks HBS as the top business school in the country. But that does not mean that social life takes a backseat. “You learn as much outside the classroom as inside,” says Blackley. BUSINESS AND PLEASUREWith the constant pressures of networking and recruiting, socializing is hard work for HBS students. From November until winter break, firms arrive on campus to give company presentations. Business is always mixed with pleasure at HBS—firms follow...