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...more delicately. We handle children a lot more delicately. They feel good about themselves for no reason. We've given them this cotton-candy sense of self with no basis in reality. We don't emphasize what's best for the greater good of society or even the classroom...
Everyone is inclined to lament that outside of the classroom, faculty-student contact is relatively rare, but no one seems to expect otherwise. We interact with faculty members regularly in formal circumstances such as seminars and office hours; a small number of individual students enjoy one-on-one contact as research aides or thesis advisees. But apart from receptions at conferences or panels, there are no other occasions to interact in a more relaxed setting with our professors...
Most of us do not complain because we do not really know otherwise. But professors should better realize the importance of our loss at not knowing them other than within the very compartmentalized and professionalized classroom exchange of ideas. No one need move from Lexington to Leverett House, but a little more mingling with students in the dining halls should really be part of every professor’s job description...
...January, Dershowitz publicly urged an investigation after learning of alleged classroom bias by Columbia MEALAC professor Joseph Massad. The allegations came to light in “Columbia Unbecoming,” a film made by the David Project, a Boston-based Zionist advocacy group. Massad has been accused of asking a student to leave his classroom unless she supported his view on alleged atrocities committed by Israelis against Palestinians...
...professor should be able to say whatever they want outside of the classroom—even inside the classroom, as long as they don’t condition attendance on agreeing with a certain viewpoint,” Dershowitz said...