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...quality depends on the teaching, and too many professors use co-taught classes as a forum for their own personal debates rather than for a teaching experience. As Williamson admits, "There's good teaching and there's bad teaching." Courses where the team-teaching experience becomes more of ego trip than a class may attract students, but they do not ultimately add anything to a liberal arts education...
...note to other Harvard professors: You don't need to inflate your ego, join other Big Names and give your course a Hollywood title to make us rave about you. Just give us what these three are advertising: a class that will allow us to think, for credit...
...Thalia, winner of the infamous - and never-ending - "I Wanna Be a VJ Contest" clomps by in big boots and poofy hair. She looks a lot cooler than she does on TV. I can't help thinking how huge her ego must be. But it is comforting, that she too, unlike the rest of everyone at MTV, was once one of us staring at the popular crowd at the lunch table, looking at everything from the outside...
Furthermore, many of their peers see leaving the South as a sign of an inflated ego or a rejection of their own states, rather than just a desire to expand their horizons, Lovett says...
...this unease (about abnormal warming, about unnatural freezing) may express a sneaking self-absorption. Weather is connected to ego, I think - nature projects moods upon us, and we project back. It's a variation on this pattern: A man imagines that the world must be incomparably better or incomparably worse in his time than it was before he arrived on the planet. To admit that life is 99.9 percent continuum (human nature and weather itself being more or less constant, with certain variations, and things tending to even out over the centuries, except for occasional ice ages) might make...