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...Hopefully students will come to know the adviser, come to trust that person, and word of mouth may have a beneficial effect,” Campbell says...
After the arrival of the first Macintosh computers, written notices were suddenly replaced with word-processed posters as student groups gained access to desktop publishing. In his annual report to the Board of Overseers in 1985, then-University President Derek C. Bok asked faculty to embrace the potential of computing technology to revolutionize University education by limiting “the passive experience of listening to lectures and reading texts...
...neatly summed up with a one-sentence lesson I learned in third grade: Agree to disagree. And, like all parting shots, I will now make this moral seem much more brilliant than it actually is: Debate sows the seeds of democracy. See, the first two letters of each word are the same...
...understanding of this award is embedded in the word ‘covenant.’ A covenant is a Jewish idea from the Bible, and its meaning has to do with the value of interdependence, the centrality of relationships, and commitment to purpose. So to me, my work at Harvard is all about those values and ideas, first and foremost with students,” Steinberg said...
...word “empathy” was coined in the 20th century to describe our ability to feel our way into another’s point of view. Smith called this ability “sympathy.” He saw every instance of sympathy as involving an implicit form of moral judgment. When empathetically engaging with the situation of others, we are led to imagine how we ourselves would react in their situation and don’t sympathize with reactions that are inappropriate. This is why sympathy can serve as the basis for our sense...