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...true that tutors were usually young graduates. But they differ from today’s residential tutors in these those tutors were thought qualified to teach a degree as soon as they had completed it. Age also didn’t matter when it came to a tutor’s moral duty, which was to guide students through not only appropriate intellectual but spiritual development...
...Another required her students to ask firm questions to which she would give terse replies, making them so uncomfortable that few would return. Harvard College—in the best formulation I’ve heard—promulgates a Japanese-style education, where the professoriate pretend to teach, the students pretend to learn, and everyone is happy...
...their knowledge once in a while. And so it is that students routinely say in senior surveys that they learn more from their extracurricular activities than from their classes. If there is any single condemnation of the modern research university, it is this. We have separated the people who teach from the people who learn, and still expect to disseminate knowledge in the quality that we used to. What foolishness...
...memoir, “One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way,” Kopp wrote that she started the company with a rallying cry: “We are a group of recent graduates who believe that today’s brightest, most motivated students of every race and academic major should join together to help the United States...
...Teach for America faces a problem: how do you lure top students at top schools away from cushy jobs? The solution it has found involves targeting apt candidates and pursuing them with Kopp’s zeal...