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Instead, Bok emphasized the potential role computers would play in transforming education indirectly. He said that when faculty begin to teach students via software rather than lectures, they will have to analyze how students learn, how they most effectively comprehend difficult concepts and how they remain interested...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Comping Computerization | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

Instead, Bok emphasized the potential role computers would play in transforming education indirectly. He said that when faculty begin to teach students via software rather than lectures, they will have to analyze how students learn, how they most effectively comprehend difficult concepts and how they remain interested...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Comping Computerization | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

Instead, Bok emphasized the potential role computers would play in transforming education indirectly. He said that when faculty begin to teach students via software rather than lectures, they will have to analyze how students learn, how they most effectively comprehend difficult concepts and how they remain interested...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Comping Computerization | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...during his tense tenure interview with older members of the English Department, Theron is asked by a professor specializing in medieval literature, "How far back does one go, do you suppose, how many years back into the history of literature, to understand, to comprehend, 19th-century America?" With his sunglasses on, Theron answers innocently, "Eighteen hundred...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel and Cecil D. Quillen, S | Title: Academia's Angst | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

...collapse of drawing instruction in the art schools. One has only to visit the Morgan--or a lesser but still excellent exhibition at the Drawing Center in Soho, of drawings by the Tiepolos, Canova, Pietro Longhi, Canaletto and others lent by the Museo Correr in Venice--to comprehend the general paucity of graphic skills today. The prospect that anyone in the foreseeable future will make drawings to rival these Albertina loans--even the sketchier ones, like Rembrandt's summing-up of a Dutch bridge and canal in a few electric jottings of bister ink--seems remote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Emblems of a Lost Tradition | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

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