Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sectionmen: Most of the sectionmen were included among the course organizers. We feel sectionmen are qualified first because they are experienced and knowledgeable in the issues treated in the course...
...discussion directed to the interest of the students in the section. Teaching is a skill which can be developed if one is willing to work hard at it. Most teachers at Harvard are primarily researchers, they teach as a secondary or tertiary part of their occupation. We feel that teaching requires a separate and distinct skill which, while not inconsistent with research, must be separately and carefully developed...
Grades: It has been our consistent feeling that grades often damage the educational value of courses. First, grades can create a feeling among students that they are competing for the attention and approval of the sectionmen...Second...often a student--with or without cause--will write papers and exams which he thinks will "please" the teacher. Finally, we feel that teachers, if they must grade papers, do not respond in the same way as if they were reading critically for ideas and argument. The prospect of grading a paper alters one's perception of it. Therefore, we have decided that...
...soldier should have posed some questions which simply did not occur to him. Must every Israeli feel his situation so strongly? Must this tension between fear and security, despair and hope, this constant viewing of life in terms of black and white, be so pervasive...
Head coach Bill McCurdy expects a tough race from the two out-of-town teams. UMass appears particularly strong, but may be lacking in depth. However, only recently did the UMass coaching staff ask that their team be included in the meet, and they must feel they have a good enough group to justify the long trek from Amherst...