Word: sections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sixteen years later, Bok's suggestions remain valid. For not only do TFs often lack necessary pedagogical skills, but section leaders in Core courses especially are largely ignorant of the University's larger curricular strategy. Harvard's high-minded educational ideals, noble as they may be, cannot be realized unless those who do a substantial portion of the teaching know how to further them...
Much of the problem, however, is imbedded in the structure of the University. With its relatively small faculty, abundance of large lecture courses and chronic shortage of qualified section leaders, it is naive to think that simple solutions could cut to the core of the problem...
First, the myth that all section leaders are adequately qualified scholars and teachers must be exploded. Professors should accept the fact that some of their TFs are inept and attempt to compensate. They should make it more comfortable for students to complain about section leaders and should permit students to switch sections simply on the basis of disliking a section leader. In Ec 10 currently, dissatisfied students are forced to come up with far more creative excuses...
Such refusals to acknowledge the hodge-podge nature of section teaching at Harvard sacrifices the well-being of undergraduates at the altar of expediency. It may be more convenient to treat students like a herd and prevent section switches, but to do so is to fail to treat undergraduate education with the respect it deserves...
...pregnant, but just before the birth, she suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. Shortly after the baby was delivered by Cesarean section, she died, at 18, having known Jimmy less than a year. The grief-stricken widower went on a short trip to West Africa, and when he returned, he found that the Patino family had kidnaped the baby, claiming Jimmy was an unfit father. He went to court and got the baby back...