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Goodwin said yesterday that her time off--she did not teach last year--has enabled her to organize her life better. She said she now wants to divide her time among the concerns she likes best: teaching, writing and raising a child...
...activity groups are semi-autonomous, each pursuing its own investigations and research, publishing pamphlets and articles in the magazine, and organizing events. Active groups include a genetics and society group--responsible for a teach-in at MIT about recombinant DNA research, on September 22--a sociobiology group, a women's issues group (fighting sexism in science is a high priority, the organization says), and a food and nutrition group...
Textbook publishers don't encourage college professors to teach from the books they've written--they just expect that they will, the Houghton Mifflin man says. "Almost 95 per cent of the books we publish are written by professors and various other academics, and as a tool in their profession, we just assume they'll use it. To use someone else's would seem odd." But Harvard professors are not known for their homogeneity nor their conventionality: there are some who characteristically veer from the norm to write a textbook they adamantly refuse to teach from. Stanley Cavell, chairman...
Most writers who choose not to teach their books, however, do so for other reasons. John Kenneth Galbraith, now Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, used to lecture his classes from notes he compiled in the course of writing a book. As soon as he completed the manuscript, he would move on to teach another course in another branch of economics in the interest of preventing boredom. For the same reason, Craig, Fairbank and Reischauer consistently lecture in Soc Sci 11 on the parts of the East Asian tome they didn't write. Loomis decided to leave his Math I teaching...
Perhaps the problem of whether professors should or shouldn't teach from works they've written has no "right" answer. Some mathematicians use no text--they just go to a board and invent a textbook on the spot. In some uncommon cases, professors feel it is immoral to ask their own students to buy their books. "Then what happens to the textbook that becomes a classic?" Cavell asks rhetorically. "Kant and Hegel would have used their own. Of course, they didn't have any competitors...