In a seminar class, there may be no exams, but students are expected to read rather widely on topics and be prepared for thorough discussion of them in class. Another possibility in graduate classes is that in addition to readings done by all students, each student may also be expected to ...
that the key to success is not memorization, its learning the relationships between an interconnected web of concepts. There are always many different paths to the correct answer and many different ways of understanding the meaning of the steps taken along a given path. Once a student finds the...
Texting, he argues, is ushering in new writing forms and rules, meaning that not only is it not a bad thing for grammar, it actually means we have a generation of people who are bilingual in a new way — able to seamlessly switch between speech, writing, and an entirely new mode of ...
How will she face death and find meaning in the total- ity of her life that she cannot conquer? Can she really feel, or only function? As a psychiatrist, I see what happens to these children grown up. They experience life as if an entire section of the spectrum of human emotion were...
John Ruskin’s Unto This Last (1860), for instance, belongs to a tradition of social criticism that was to prove influential on the labour movement of the early Twentieth Century as well as the leaders of the struggle for independence in India (Gandhi translated it into Gujarati). Ruskin’s...
The struggle for work–life balance amongst women in academia who are both mothers and scholars continues to be apparent during a global pandemic highlighting the systemic fissures and social inequalities ingrained in our society, including systems of hi