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It’s not that we should abandon our responsibilities, crank up the house music, and flee to the boardwalks of South Jersey, but there’s a lesson here to be learned??life is short, but not too short for another shot of Jager...
...should describe the stages of his life in terms of the “manners” he learned. Furthermore, the chapters rarely discuss Watson’s manners. Instead, Watson merely recounts his memories and then, at the end of each chapter, adds a “Lessons Learned?? section with “lessons” that rarely have anything to do with manners. A man capable of so many controversial, offensive utterances is, to say the least, an unlikely candidate for claiming he has learned and can teach manners, a la Emily Post...
...Lessons Learned?? sections, Watson gives advice which will not apply to most readers since most people will never become Nobel Prize-winning scientists. Of the pieces of advice that are applicable to the average reader, many are clichéd and lack insight. For example, in the first chapter of the book, Watson’s banal advice is to “Find a Young Hero to Emulate...
...People learned and god knows Bok’s learned??he’s a great example,” he says. “He learned how to defuse confrontation and at the same time people began...to listen to what students have...
...preceptor for Mathematics 1a, “Introduction to Calculus,” said it would be hard to ask students to write a final paper rather than take an exam in math. “A lot of people [view] math as a series of facts to be learned?? and therefore would consider a paper about math “silly...because it wouldn’t be very deep,” he said. And he said that moving the final exam in Calculus 1a to before winter break presents logistical difficulties...