Word: teaching
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...Core planners' major argument--that Core courses teach "modes of inquiry" and "habits of mind" rather than mechanically transmitting a body of facts--has some merit. Surely these modes are useful. But the great fallacy in the Core as implemented so far is that the two approaches--the "mode of inquiry" and the survey course--are somehow mutually exclusive. They are not, and a well-taught survey course invariably transmits a case study in intellectual approach along with the working knowledge of a field that makes such an approach meaningful. For evidence, Core planners should look to their own most...
Cutler's squash career, surprisingly enough, began when he was already 35. To prevent himself "from getting fat," he persuaded a former classmate to teach him the game. At the time, squash was just one more sport added to the long list Cutler had participated in since at Noble and Greenough he ran track and played baseball, ice hockey and football! Later, he was one of the Crimson's top swimmers, overcoming polio to gain All American status and captain the team in his senior year...
...Monopoly. Ralph Anspach wanted to teach his son a lesson about the evils of a monopoly. Some lesson. It took a nine-year legal battle and $200,000 in lawyers' fees, but last week he made his point. The nation's largest producer of family board games, Parker Brothers, no longer has a monopoly on the name Monopoly...
What you are in what they did. By most meanings--student evaluation and enrollment, readiness of the faculty to teach courses in the Cure and to think up new ones for it-it seems to be alive and well. It's true that the Core curriculum does not attempt to say that some subjects or bodies of knowledge are more important than others. But it does say that certain basic skills and distinctive says of thinking are essential tools for acquiring the ability to learn, understand, and enjoy through one's life. In their own way, the Core courses introduce...
Both Scheffler and Howard said that Graham's arrival at the Ed School enabled them to develop the idea for the center. They are the only two professors who teach philosophy at the Ed School...