Word: finding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...practice medicine, or tags along with a crack dealer to learn the ropes of the drug trade. In fact, a body of scientists and educators maintains that it is the primary means by which people learn. "If you look at any successful learning situation, chances are you will find elements of apprenticeship," says John Seely Brown of the Institute for Research on Learning in Palo Alto, Calif...
...find yourself having to provide more information on alternatives than you typically would like to," says former Vice President for Financial Affairs Thomas O'Brien. "He doesn't want to just know your conclusions--he likes to know how you got there...
AFTER four years at Harvard, these concerns sound familiar. Critics of the College find similar faults. But I was being paid by the University to justify the system, at least enough to garner a donation and a modicum of alumni interest...
This statement seems to capture both sides of the 'good Harvard-bad Harvard' coin. Most students find that friends, or extracurriculars, or being sociable, or living on their own constituted their best education. The flip side is inevitably Harvard's failure to educate--due to its large classes, distant faculty and ill-conceived Core curriculum...
...like a romantic tragedy, there are two actors present here whose flaws lead to disaster. Not only do students hide from challenges, but their university refuses to challenge them. Harvard no longer presumes to tell undergraduates what they need to learn, believing they will somehow find the correct education on their own. The University should win renown as the World's Greatest University, as well as the World's Worst Teacher...