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...primary method through which students can obtain this knowledge is through academic advising. But many students say that the tapping this resource requires some orchestration...
High-ranking administrators describe Rudenstine as "Charming" and "warm and compassionate." These traits have--some say for worse infused Rudenstine 's leadership style on the diversity front where his method has been one of quiet persuasion, often one-on-one with other academics...
...hands-on approach worked that day in a fourth-grade class at Vine Elementary. The same method seems to be working in Cincinnati...
Excessive emphasis on method in courses intended for non-specialists is also pedagogically unsound. It is true that substance and method are everywhere intertwined. But what attracts and holds a beginner's interest is substance, not method. The historian Daniel J. Boorstin writes in his introduction to The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that it "was the first extensive work of English literature (and history) that I read and reread. It occupied much of my thought during my university years as an undergraduate." Einstein recalls how he fell in love with mathematics...
...deeper level, method does matter, of course. Scinece, for example, owes its distinctive character not only to the questions it asks but also to the way it answers them. A good scientific story must be logically coherent and empirically testable as well as interesting. Similarly, the stories historians tell aren't just stories. To understand and enjoy them fully one must know more than a little about how they are made. Substance and method are both essential, and Core courses should not ignore method. But substance must come first. If a work of science, history, literature, or art doesn...