Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that's whack for Bob from Tampa in my Science B-15 section...
...Rome, what's up with this kid in my economics 1010b section? The TF asks us the typical introductory question about your name and your concentration and where you live, and this kid goes off. He starts talking about how he is in the class because he is fascinated by development in Third-World countries and how policy affects that development. I was surprised that he didn't start talking about how supply-side economics had affected his life. Don't get me wrong, I am glad he likes that stuff, and he can learn as much about...
This is what Harvard needs. People that have good questions and astute comments can quickly earn there reputation as Clones and can jump to the front of the speaking line during section. People that don't have takes can be run out of the section due to embarrassment after receiving so much smack. Then there are those of us that just sit and listen who simply receive entertainment for our trouble...
...originality for this list, rather the reverse: that nearly every experienced teacher who has paid serious and sustained attention to how students acquire core intellectual skills and important substantive insights would come up with a similar list. I propose, then, that every Core course outside the arts offer a section or sections organized along lines similar to those just sketched (or in some other way that could be shown to promote the same ends as effectively...
Already, after only a few semesters, I am unable to recall the identities of sundry section leaders and teaching fellows. And, I daresay, most of the instructors I've encountered will soon forget me. Many have done so already. Alas! How fleeting are our days here at Harvard. Sure, I'will wax romantic about the grandeur of the Yard and the vastness of Widener Library. But who will populate these wistful memories? Certainly not the administration. May be a sympathetic professor, but probably not. My classmates? A handful of close friends at most. No, the souls whom I'll remember...