Word: teaching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TEACH. Abraham Kaplan, professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan, illustrates how he works "to shape a man's temper of mind" rather than merely impart "textbook facts...
...misleading to a potential concentrator who will spend the gut of his concentrating time--his studio work and his thesis project--creating projects to achieve the goals of an aesthete. Even the required lecture courses are on the principles and psychology of visual communication and design; and what they teach you is aesthetic; why whatever-it-is is aesthetic is sociological...
GIVEN that most of the same people now teaching in the Carpenter Center will return next year in the new program to teach the same or similar courses, a few criticisms of present teaching will probably still be relevant next year. The remarks are often made of the department in general although they deserve application in one course or one field of teaching...
First, instructors are too concerned with the legitimacy of the department and the courses they teach. It was perhaps this sort of worrying about what the Faculty would think that confused freshmen. And attempts by teachers to go too far into sociology puts them where they are often weakest instead of most helpful. Their desire to seem academically legitimate in a society that defines intelligence in terms of the ability to use language sometimes makes an uneasy tension...
Lloyd L. Weinreb, once a staff attorney to the Warren Commission, has been named Professor of Law. Weinreb was a law clerk for Justice Harlan of the U.S. Supreme Court before coming to Harvard in 1965 to teach criminal law and criminal process...