“Young people are very, very concerned about the ethics of representation, of cultural interaction—all these kinds of things that, actually, we think about a lot!” Amanda Claybaugh, Harvard’s dean of undergraduate education and an English professor, told me last fall. She was one of several teachers who described an orientation toward the present, to the extent that many students lost their bearings in the past. “The last time I taught ‘The Scarlet Letter,’ I discovered that my students were really struggling to understand the sentences as sentences—like, having trouble identifying the subject and the verb,” she said. “Their capacities are different, and the nineteenth century is a long time ago.”
Harvard undergrads don't know what the subject and predicate of sentences are
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She must be a horrible teacher because you should be able to explain nouns and verbs and get undergrads to understand that in about 2 minutes. It’s not difficult even if it’s not something they were taught before.
Undergraduate students of the most famous university in the world should know this.
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She must be a horrible teacher because you should be able to explain nouns and verbs and get undergrads to understand that in about 2 minutes. It’s not difficult even if it’s not something they were taught before.
I feel the same about most math used in analysis without completing a prerequisite.
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Even many Harvard graduates don’t understand why there are seasons.
However, they are able to appear very confident when they give an idiotic explanation.
A Private Universe
This video brings into sharp focus the dilemma facing all educators: Why don't even the brightest students truly grasp basic science concepts? Interviews are held with high school students and Ivy League graduates asking them to explain what causes the seasons and the phases of the moon. Even the brightest students in the class have false ideas based on enduring misconceptions that traditional instructional methods cannot overcome.https://www.learner.org/series/a-private-universe/1-a-private-universe/
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Even many Harvard graduates don’t understand why there are seasons.
However, they are able to appear very confident when they give an idiotic explanation.
A Private Universe
This video brings into sharp focus the dilemma facing all educators: Why don't even the brightest students truly grasp basic science concepts? Interviews are held with high school students and Ivy League graduates asking them to explain what causes the seasons and the phases of the moon. Even the brightest students in the class have false ideas based on enduring misconceptions that traditional instructional methods cannot overcome.
https://www.learner.org/series/a-private-universe/1-a-private-universe/Ghastly