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Coles—who fondly recalls his former TF’s “tremendous enthusiasm and intelligence”—stopped teaching the course two years ago, but echoes Winger’s conviction that Breathing for a Living belongs on a Harvard syllabus...
...certain body of knowledge is very nice thing to say, but determining what is valuable enough to be included in that body of knowledge is inherently contentious. Better to let Harvard professors propose their own valuations, in the form of a course description in the catalog and a syllabus during shopping period, and let the Harvard student decide...
...proud of my book,” Dershowitz concludes. Indeed, what Harvard professor wouldn’t be proud of a book that cites a Sony movie and a chronology appended to a high school syllabus to document casualty figures from a major conflict, and an editorial in The Orlando Sentinel to resolve the controversies regarding a crucial United Nations resolution that has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies...
...consequence of these limiting forces is a dearth of originality, creativity and academic curiosity. When all of your sources for a paper have been dissected in lecture and laid out in front of you on your syllabus (and, literally, at the Coop), there is no need to think for yourself or challenge any of the professor’s assumptions. There is no impetus to consider the merits and drawbacks of a radically different point of view. Any automaton can amass pre-processed arguments on both sides of an issue and take one side or the other while never approaching...
...participation in section. The need to reward—or punish—students based on their performance in section leads to TFs mechanically plowing through the assigned readings rather than stimulating intellectual debate. After all, testing whether students have done the work required of them by the syllabus is a fair and simple way to allocate grades. It does not, however, lend itself to dynamic discussion which is, after all, one of the central reasons for having section in the first place. Students, understandably keen to get the high grades which they feel they deserve, focus more on demonstrating...