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...Leadership Project survey reported 44 percent of Harvard women felt their male peers spoke up more in class. “Oh it’s a classic issue,” said Lee A. Warren, Associate Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning??the institution that trains Harvard teaching fellows. “This topic comes up very often at Harvard and it has been going on for a long, long time…I think some women are not as willing to assert their opinions in class and the problem is very noticeable...
...course, many small seminars pop up in our curriculum, although they are reserved for a select few. Those of us in small concentrations with an emphasis on one-on-one learning??I’m in history and literature—have myriad opportunities to get to know professors, to sit around a small table and debate and to write 20-page papers on original topics with original research. But many of my upperclass friends in larger concentrations lament that they haven’t had a small discussion class since their freshman seminar...
Recognizing that anything I scribble will probably be a rehash of something written more eloquently before, I think I’ll use my “parting shot” to discuss the whole “learning?? thing here at Harvard...
Bolger hasn’t been at Harvard that long relative to all the time he’s spent at other institutions of higher learning??only a year and a half at this point—but he’s completely indoctrinated in the spirit of the place. He says he spends most weekends in Widener and that he stays two to three weeks ahead of the reading in most of his courses. “I try to sleep as little as possible. I try to be as involved...
...learn that stifles inspiration. Of course, not all classes are guilty of such limited imaginings, nor should they sacrifice details for larger ideas. But what does get lost in the kind of narrow thinking we are encouraged to do is space for the risky leaps that generate true learning??expansive, flexible and free...