Word: parenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farther--probably many wonderful leaders of discussion classes today look at students with the steady attention and approval that their parents gave to them when they were learning to walk. According to the English developmental theorist, D.W. Winnicott, the parent kneeling on the floor a few feet from the toddler is creating a "space" in which learning takes place, in which there is little danger, much intrinsic reward, and the right amount (not too much) of excitement and applause and laughter. There are many kinds of laughter connected with learning, and the prophetic, promissory laugh drives out the mean, defeatist...
...Harvard Parent," you have the right and obligation to complain to the appropriate department chairperson about mediocre and incompetent teaching fellows But, please take the time to thank the highly capable teaching fellows, too--those who enjoy what we're doing and who find your sons and daughters to be stimulating and challenging to work with. A Biology Teaching Fellow
...already pointed out some of the special burdens--financial, professional, and personal--which a graduate student suffers under, and I do not wish to belabor this point. But I would like to point out some of the subtler and more insidious implications lurking behind the outraged surface of "Harvard Parent's" diatribe I cannot, for one thing, accept the implied assumption that all marking, all writing, and indeed all thinking is possible only under strictly controlled and "professional" conditions, that should not vary according to the character and circumstances of student and instructor. While I would never...
Perhaps "Harvard Parent" would prefer it if Harvard were purged of certain undesirable influences, of things that might interfere with the efficient transmission of neat packets of information, of tried and true "cultural values" into the gaping brains of children. One must first, at all costs, protect our charges from the "commerce of Cambridge merchants," from the "excited talk," "loud laughter," and "disruptive groans" one so often hears in establishments like Tommy's. Really the help should keep "the clatter of dishes" behind closed doors. And the teachers? Well "Harvard Parent" concedes that "the gods and goddesses who collect full...
Perhaps "Harvard Parent" would prefer that we all perform like professional teachers. If we were paid like professional teachers, perhaps we would. But I do not think that professional teachers are what this university needs, at least not of the type that "Harvard Parent" seems to favor. I always though a university was supposed to be a place where students choose to learn, and learn to choose. A section is the best opportunity for a student to make personal choice significant in his or her own education: it is finally the student's responsibility, not the section leader...