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...Alfred Prufrock was first published in Poetry magazine.) Poems became less like high-end pop songs and more like math problems to be solved. They turned into the property of snobs and professors. They started to feel like homework. "It's thought of as a subject to be taught instead of simply an art to be enjoyed," says Christian Wiman, Poetry's editor...
...With few exceptions the picture is the same the world over. As a matter of fact, looking back at my own education, this is how I was taught...
...When I first started teaching here at Harvard, I certainly did not ask myself that question. I simply taught the way I had been taught. For my lectures, I developed notes that were different from the assigned reading. After all, I did not want to be accused of lecturing from the textbook...
...interest in quantitative social science across the Atlantic. He will be studying evidence-based social work at Oxford with a Frank Knox fellowship, which provides for a year of study at any British Commonwealth university. Alright. So he’s smart. And if four years at Harvard have taught you anything it should be that being smart isn’t enough. And it certainly isn’t enough to qualify for The Crimson’s lucky seven. What should really make you feel inferior to Sarkar is the fact that he’s a much...
Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Tommie Shelby, who has taught Social Studies 10 during two of the past three years, also acknowledged that students are likely attracted by Social Studies’ reputation: “That’s a Harvard problem. People are competitive and do the thing that brings the most prestige—it goes with the territory...