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...studied English at the University of Pennsylvania and Philip Roth was one of your professors. Wasn't law school a snore after that? No, law school was fantastic! I loved law school. I teach law now at Penn; I teach a course that I developed called Justice and Fiction. Law school is the most academically rigorous environment I've ever been in, and I just love that. The bottom line is, what you're talking about in law school is "What is justice?" That's what I'm writing about, too. What is right and wrong? What I like about...
...Some standardization may be desirable, and even necessary, in what is often so subjective an enterprise as education, but the project’s pioneers should tread carefully. While any standardized test—whether MCATs, SATs, or APs—risks encouraging educators to “teach to the test,” explicitly requiring that degree programs include certain material effectively forces them to do so. When done too zealously, curriculum standardization not only stifles ingenuity, but also severely limits academic freedom...
...weight-related ailments such as heart attacks, back surgeries and hip and joint replacements, says Luiz Vicente Berti, president of the Brazilian Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Unless preventive action is taken to educate people, he warns, Brazil faces a sick and expensive future. "If we don't teach people how to eat properly and exercise, then in 10 years no one will have the money to pay the hospital bills that will arise," Berti says, adding that the number of stomach-reduction surgeries carried out in Brazil had risen 500%. "The U.S. can't solve its problem...
Since Harvard students are so well trained to question their established modes of thinking, here’s something to chew on. Although we may spend more hours per day studying at Lamont than sleeping, books can’t teach us everything. Reading, writing, and struggling through problem sets help us to think critically, but they’re not enough—students need more than just texts to analyze or numbers to crunch...
...Undeterred, a group of students and rogue professors held a "Pirates Screening Teach-In" on Monday night, drawing some 200 attendees. Before a 30-min. excerpt - which included two threesomes and copious shots of corset-clad blondes - students, professors, lawyers and ACLU representatives stood up to defend porn on principle. English professor Martha Nell Smith, who noted that literature from Shakespeare to Dickinson includes pornographic elements, said it's a student's choice whether to study erotica and "our job together to contextualize it." (Read about porn and the iPhone...