Word: ec
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past four years, I was a section leader for Ec 10, an experience that has been as rewarding as anything I've done at Harvard. Teaching Ec 10 was never a job for me. Sure, it paid the bills, but I didn't approach teaching as something I had to do; it was something I wanted to do. Again, a big mistake...
...Ec 10 became part of a crusade to expose Harvard undergraduates to good teaching. They certainly do not get too much of it from tenured faculty, or so they tell me. It is in this quest I have become immensely confused. Good teaching clearly is valued by tenured faculties at major research universities only slightly higher than good penmanship...
...former students are reading this, they know how much I love to teach, and how much I've enjoyed teaching Ec 10. I don't regret any of my time in the classroom; it's helped me keep a sense of perspective and just a bit of my sanity intact...
David Johnson has taught Ec 10 for three years...
Veteran graduate students are loathe to single out individual courses as particularly unpleasant or difficult to teach. But one course which is the target of frequent gripes is Social Analysis 10--Ec 10, Harvard's infamous introductory economics course...