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...didn't want people to think we were going to judge them," Lewontin says. "You know the claim professors always make to explain why they give exams--'Oh, we just want to see whether people have learned anything.' Well, that's what we really wanted...
...Lewontin admits that some people never did the reading or showed up for the lectures, but, he complains, students couldn't devote more of their time to Nat Sci 36 because they felt pressured to work hard for their other courses...
...Lewontin says confidently that although he has some regrets about the course, he feels "the benefits far outweighed the costs." Others who taught the course are less confident...
Counter doesn't want to talk about the course at all. "That was purely Dick Lewontin's course," he says. "It was run the way he wanted...
Some students who took the course hated it. "Their basic complaint was this," Lewontin says: '"I know it was my fault that I didn't do the work, but I didn't do it because the coercion was absent.' On the one hand they were blaming themselves; on the other hand, they were blaming...