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...chance to shop Philosophy 135: "Pragmatism and NeoPragmatism" over the last week listened to a conversation between two of the great living American pragmatists, Professor West and Professor Putnam. This is the last time this bright constellation of minds will appear behind the podium of a Harvard classroom. At the end of his introduction to the class, Professor Putnam announced that he would be retiring after this semester...
Mazur has also expanded technology--and accountability--to outside the classroom...
...looked around during exam period and watched other students as they walked through the Yard on their way to take a test. I observed them as they entered the library carrying a bag almost half their weight. I noticed their expression as they sat in agitated silence in the classroom prior to taking an exam while ensuring that they had all the crucial information memorized. What I heard or saw was not curiosity but anguish, not excitement but anxiety, not active pursuit but passive resignation...
...major studios created classroom epics: Disney's 1946 cartoon The Story of Menstruation (no, Minnie's not in it) and Warner's 1962 poli-scare film Red Nightmare. You'll see a teenage Dick York (the first Darren on TV's Bewitched) as a "shy guy" who wins friends by sharing his radio-building expertise, and young Jack Lemmon, in Once Too Often, as a smug suburbanite headed for a sickening car crash. Sex Hygiene, a 1942 VD film with gross-out closeups of pustulant penises and bizarre soaping rituals, was directed for the Navy by no less than John...
...nothing wrong with telling a kid to hang up his clothes or help with the dishes. But maybe the instructo-entertainment complex is better at teaching a child bad things (because they look cool) than nice things (because they look drippy). After two decades of social indoctrination by classroom movies, kids were dressing more sloppily and taking more drugs. Instead of running for Student Council, they were protesting the Vietnam...