Word: exclusionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A professor wants only those students in his or her classroom who are in a position to benefit from the course and contribute to productive class discussion. They seek to exclude all those who are under-prepared and under-qualified. They understandably don't want dead wood floating in their...
I think professors have to be held most responsible for their avoidance of difficult decisions. They, like most of us, don't want to have to make controversial decisions and then stand by them eve when a student comes to their office hours snootily demanding an explanation. They don't...
Despite these strong works, as well as Morimura's spectacular appropriation of Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp," the show is plagued by the inclusion of poor work by Boston area artists. Although the curators nobly attempted to showcase local talent, most of their selections are weak in comparison...
Eighty-one pages into The Good Book (Morrow; 383 pages; $25), his entertaining bid to grab serious Bible study back from the religious right, Peter Gomes quotes his guiding spirit: not St. Paul, Paul Tillich or scores of other cited exegetes, but obscure Yale historian and teetotaler Roland Bainton, who...
BOOKS . . . THE GOOD BOOK: Eighty-one pages into 'THE GOOD Book' (Morrow; 383 pages; $25), his entertaining bid to grab serious Bible study back from the religious right, Peter Gomes quotes his guiding spirit: not St. Paul, Paul Tillich or scores of other cited exegetes, but obscure Yale historian and...