Word: learnedness
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Our myopia has given rise to a pernicious moral equivalency—exhibited most recently in S. Allen Counter’s comparison of the tactics of the South African apartheid regime to the Harvard University Police Department’s. A meaningfully “international” community...
I think the most important lesson I’ve learned at Harvard is one that I’ve only recently tried to recognize and implement. Being “busy” carries with it several bad connotations. First and foremost is the implied lack of agency: When...
But just as the best education should be centered on asking questions, so should the best teaching. I could have continued to ignore the problems that the lecture format poses, but as a scientist I’ve learned not to ignore the data: something had to change.
Some of the attrition is due to the nature of science itself. For me, the joy of science in high school was its rigorous approach to knowledge, its entertaining parlor tricks, and a few spectacular teachers. At Harvard, I learned that science has less to do with classroom stink bombs...
Thursdays became Quincy community nights in the dining hall. Lee and Deb learned everyone’s name, came to sporting events and concerts, remembered who wrote for which campus publication, and asked about the big events they couldn’t attend. They bought a pool table for the...