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...Core Director Lewis denies that the monster class wounds student learning. CUE Guide-thumping Lewis says students should not fear the untameable creature. "I don't think it should hurt a student's education. I am not saying that it doesn't, but the CUE Guide data doesn't say it does," she maintains...
...While these two students epitomize the heinous fallout of a monster class, the small-scale implications of negligible student-teacher relations can prove just as detrimental to the student. Mendelsohn himself admits that the distance between him and his students in his Core course is glaring. "Someone will walk though the Yard and smile at me and I'll have no idea that they are in my class," he recalls...
...Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, chair of the Committee on the Core Program, agrees the monster is innocuous. "There will always be some lecturers whose presentations are so exciting, and who talk about subjects of interest to such a wide range of students, that they fill Sanders," he says. "Once the audience has risen above about 100 or so, I don't think that the 'student's ability to learn' is affected. It can become, instead, a vivid, shared experience. There is surely nothing intrinsically wrong with very popular lecturers." Knowles's vision of a "vivid, shared, experience...
...study done outside of the Harvard community warns of the danger of the monster class. Wayne C. Booth, professor emeritus of English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago, who was on the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching study commission that examined Harvard last year, claims immense classes are often the source of much of the failings of any research institution. "I am passionately opposed to large classes," he says. "The real learning occurs with one-on-one education." The commission put out a report detailing the problems with undergraduate education at the nation's 125 research institutions...
...Daydreaming or dancing in the aisles, students and faculty continue to contemplate the nature of the beast. Brave as the souls dueling the monster classes may be, they have not slain it. The beast is simply...