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...What did the role teach you about being deaf and mute? I learned that about half the people who are deaf have a positive attitude. Some think of it as part of their identity. Even if you were not deaf and mute, if you went to a foreign country with a different language, you would feel isolated. If you are trapped verbally, I think anyone can feel this kind of isolation...
...hurly-burly of more quotidian topics. "Students will be more motivated to learn if they see a connection with the kinds of problems, issues and questions they will encounter in later life," says interim president Derek Bok. Harvard isn't the only institution rethinking what and how to teach its students. Yale, Rutgers and the universities of Pennsylvania and Texas have recently made similar changes, and now that Harvard has joined the club, others are likely to follow...
...percent of applicants.Even after the advent of Option III, doubt about the merits of creative writing lingered. In 1979, Director of Expository Writing Richard Marius cancelled the only fiction offering, Expository Writing 13, even though it was the most popular section. He was concerned that fiction courses failed to teach students how to write expository prose. Although the decision was met with outrage by many students and even some Expository Writing preceptors, the course was never reinstated.Option III was eventually replaced by today’s creative writing program. The program functions largely as an autonomous body: The creative writing...
Despite his penchant for entertainment, Dern has at least one geeky trait: he’s signed up for three more years of school, studying geography on a Harvard-Cambridge Scholarship next year and participating in Teach for America for the following...
...writing a dissertation on, say, designing the American city or something, is an entirely different matter. Academics are trained in specific disciplines defined by their methodologies, not in the content-oriented subject headings of the proposed new curriculum. The experience of the Core demonstrated that to expect professors to teach “modes of inquiry” was to expect too much. Expecting the new curriculum to keep its cross-disciplinary shape under the stewardship of committed disciplinarian is no less ambitious...