Word: gripes
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While the staff may gripe about their own dreams to continue their studies at HLS, a smaller and more responsive law school will ultimately do Harvard proud--students and faculty alike...
Some teachers, who resent any challenge to their autonomy, gripe that structured curriculums merely supply rote facts while stifling creativity among teachers and students alike. "The only teaching this does is to make kids cough up answers on command," says Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve. Adds Linda McNeil, a professor of education at Rice University: "They'll drive out the best teachers and give the weakest a place to hide...