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...report is not anything new. Rumors of some elusive Golden Age of Harvard academics––when professors and tutors "actually" cared about teaching, when graduate students did not need to publish-or-perish at the expense of instruction, and when learning was the rule, not the exception––have been circulating about campus since I arrived. Yet when it comes to undergraduate teaching (and cries for its improvement), things haven’t changed much in 300 years...
...unfortunate reality is that the publish-or-perish mentality forces many professors to choose career advancement over spending the time and energy necessary to improve their teaching. It would be unrealistic to expect this mentality to disappear. What the College must do, therefore, is make good teaching a crucial aspect of, rather than a distraction from, career advancement. The Bok Center, the stated mission of which is to “enhance the quality of teaching and learning in Harvard College courses,” is a good step in the right direction. Professors are encouraged to attend lectures offered...
...What did you conclude about Kuribayashi's tactics, which some argue extended the battle of Iwo Jima at great cost to both American and Japanese lives? He knew that Iwo Jima would eventually fall to the United States and that he and his soldiers would all perish. So he worked for the end of the war, so it did not spread to the Japanese islands, and so the Americans would not have to fight any longer this senseless war. All he was thinking was how he could make the Americans want to finish the war as soon as possible...
...presently exists, is that it ignores comparative advantage. Some academics are great teachers, others produce scholarship that changes the world. Still others, though they are few in number, manage to do both. Tenure is the light at the end of the tunnel that is the publish-or-perish lifestyle of graduate students. As a result, those who consider teaching, not research, their passion tend to drop off the tenure track early in their careers. Some of those lovers of pedagogy end up as non-faculty instructors at Harvard where, after teaching for six years without tenure, they?...
...movie I had just seen, Cry Freedom!, the story of the South African nationalist Steven Biko (Denzel Washington) and his white friend (Kevin Kline), an editor who wants to publish a book on Biko. Halfway through, Biko is dead, and Cry Freedom becomes the editor?s publish-or-perish saga. I told Jane that, as much as I agreed with the film?s sentiments, it was one more example of Hollywood thinking it can?t make a movie about a black man without making it really about a white...