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...January’s end, with the official inauguration still a week away, the pursuit of textbook price reform was already well underway—and under fire. A group of UC representatives, dispatched to the Harvard Coop to collect ISBN information for the database of a UC-endorsed, student-run book-savings Web site, were forced to leave by store employees...
...similarly unique, coming in excitable spasms and accompanied by a frenzied hand-wringing in its more passionate moments: when, for instance, he discovers that the new University librarian is a leader in intellectual history—his own area of concentration when he has time to pick up a textbook...
...illustrate the gap between textbook and empirical knowledge, the nasal-toned Kristof recalled a move he made to China to serve as a Beijing bureau chief. Though he had mostly mastered the local language in advance, Kristof said, he still managed to mistake his home’s doorbell—which, in Chinese characters, was labeled “electronic sound-carrying device”—for espionage equipment planted by the Chinese government...
...first started teaching here at Harvard, I certainly did not ask myself that question. I simply taught the way I had been taught. For my lectures, I developed notes that were different from the assigned reading. After all, I did not want to be accused of lecturing from the textbook...
...When my students asked for copies of my lecture notes, I gladly obliged. The next year, I assigned the same textbook and handed out the complete set of notes on the first day of class. The dismaying result: a handful of students complained that I was lecturing straight from my lecture notes! I was outraged, but the students were foreshadowing a conclusion I would only reach many years later: education is not the verbal presentation of information that is readily available in other forms...