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...particularly pleasing that Pinker plans to teach a course in Harvard’s Core Curriculum next year. One of Harvard’s greatest assets is its roster of noteworthy professors who still remain accessible to large numbers of students outside their individual departments through Core classes. In the tradition of late Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould, big names and great thinkers like Clowes Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner have helped to stimulate a broad-based interest in the sciences at the College; Pinker’s addition will make sure this important practice continues. Though...
During one session of The Math Circle—a Cambridge-based extracurricular program that aims to teach kids math “the right way”—a 12-year-old girl demanded that Robert Kaplan tell her the answer to a confusing question. The exchange found its way into The Art of the Infinite: The Joys of Mathematics, a recent book which Kaplan, the program’s co-founder, wrote with his wife, Ellen F. Kaplan...
...Kaplans realized that they had touched a nerve, and enrollment grew—purely through word of mouth. They now teach nearly 200 people every semester...
...weeks leading up to the war, poets held teach-ins at Harvard, theater groups performed their pleas for peace and hundreds waved handmade signs in a Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ)-sponsored walkout...
...said his son—who planned to teach at West Point after receiving his MBA—set high standards that were the cornerstone upon which he lived his life...