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...Once you've had the experience of teaching students--and being stretched by students--it's a reward that you wouldn't want to forfeit. And that's why I've been eager to retain the possibility of teaching students," Peretz explains...
However, serving as Master of South House from 1971 to 1974. Peretz said he found it "less gratifying" to work with students in a social environment than in an intellectual...
Looking back at the '60s, when he began teaching Harvard students. Peretz says they resemble the students he has today...
...They are intellectually serious, morally serious, but not morally inflamed," says Peretz. But he says he thinks that the Core Curriculum has changed the character of his students but not the quality. "It's absolutely palpable in conversations with students," says Perets. "There's more of a common concern. It's no longer the wholly lainnez-faire attitude towards getting an education...
...also notes that there have been changes in Harvard's administration since "the rather stuffy and inbred years before 1970." "I think the most important thing (in the change) was that Derek Bok was not a Harvard man," says Peretz...