Tag: teachers
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Acts of Professional Kindness
“Many of us owe our careers to… well-timed acts of professional kindness in the face of bureaucratic mechanisms or capricious supervisors.” (Pinning this to…
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The Best Worst Feedback You’ve Received from a Teacher
As we saw in the discussion of last week’s post about Harry Frankfurt’s recollections of Max Black, some of you recall hard-ass professors you…
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French Teachers Consider Strike Over Reduction in Philosophy Curriculum
Last week, at the completion of their high school studies, 750,000 students in France took the baccalauréat exam in philosophy, or “bac philo,” as it…
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Are Bans on Faculty-Student Sex Unjust to Students?
The New Republic has published “Lust for Learning,” by Laura Miller. If it weren’t for the fact that this article is full of references to philosophers past…
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The Difference Between Teachers and Professors
First, I am your professor, not your teacher. There is a difference. Up to now your instruction has been in the hands of teachers,…