Word: sectioning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most who have taken the course will recite a litany of complaints: The class is too big, the lectures are boring, it's difficult to find a teaching fellow who can explain things well, the course is taught completely in section, the problem sets are busywork and the lectures fail to capture student interest...
...Most sections have more than 20 people, and are run a lot like a high school class. With the cost of attending school at $35,400 per year, half of us end up paying almost $5,000 for the privilege of falling asleep in Sanders Theatre during lectures or sitting in the back of a crammed section room straining to see the blackboard...
Despite all of these hassles, I listened in section. I did my best to stay awake in lecture. I tried to ignore George F. Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein's neoclassical bias and his refusal to acknowledge other viewpoints. I got lucky and had a good section leader (one of the few, according to my other friends in the class) who took extra time to explain things for me. So I managed to learn a thing or two about monopolies...
...learned in Ec 10 that monopolies harm consumers. Quality tends to suffer. The monopolist has no direct incentive to improve the product offered. What if Harvard offered an alternative introductory economics class, forcing the two to compete for student attendance? Perhaps then Ec 10 would have to reduce section size and spice up the curriculum to attract more "customers...
...their second debate, they sat around a little half-circle table - I believe that was the "Politik," $169.95 in the debate accessories section of the Ikea catalog - and Gore came across subdued and humbled to a point. He didn't sigh. He didn't interrupt (much). He generally refrained from constructions like, "Let me explain why," "And here's how this works," or "Now let me put this in terms your puny man-brain can fathom...