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...There are, unfortunately, a lot more Charlenes than Jacobs in our area. People like them teach something important: pain is a special case of the mind/body problem. Ask many "experts" in pain management. Was Charlene in pain? Yes. Was Jacob? No. Why? Because these practitioners hold that pain is only what the patient reports. In a simple way it's impossible to disagree with them...
...seems, however, that in the College’s three centuries of existence, the prioritization of teaching has always been a topic of controversy and quiet resignation. Witness President Eliot’s comments from over a century before Bok’s, comments as true today as they were then: "There are a few men and women who look upon [teaching] as a profession. The great majority of persons who teach, however, never intend to treat teaching as a profession." If anything can be gleaned from Harvard’s history, it is that the quality of an undergraduate...
Speaking of primary sources, perhaps Faust could teach her critics a thing or two about checking their facts...
...anyone is qualified to teach a class about athletics, it’s Baltzell. The visiting psychology professor from Boston University is also a former Olympian and National Rowing Champion. But when asked about her aim for the newly-offered class, she’s quick to point out the emphasis on the psych—not the sport...
Unfortunately though, history does matter. For example, the knowledge of a bit of history would show that the last time Harvard decided to reconsider its notion of a liberal arts education, it settled on the novel idea that liberal arts should teach “ways of learning.” This groundbreaking system envisioned that every student could be a mini-scientist, a mini-philosopher, and in the case of Literature and Arts C, a mini-starving artist. It was the Golden Age for education, and the Core Curriculum was welcomed in the streets as a liberator. Soon, order...