2013年6月10日 星期一

True meaning of College education

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/why-do-i-teach/?src=me&ref=general

"Overall, college education seems a matter of mastering a complex body of knowledge for a very short time only to rather soon forget everything except a few disjointed elements." Can't agree more:(

"The goal of the course is simply that they have had close encounters with some great writing." I always see myself lucky when reading Homer or SophoclesXD
"College education is a proliferation of such possibilities: the beauty of mathematical discovery, the thrill of scientific understanding, the fascination of historical narrative, the mystery of theological speculation. We should judge teaching not by the amount of knowledge it passes on, but by the enduring excitement it generates."

Can I ask the school to send this article to all professors?

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