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Liveblog: "By Failing to Prepare, You are Preparing to Fail," Part III
More questions and answers:
Question: What about writing?
Toby: We shouldn't call it writing. We should call it re-writing.
Gee: Students go to the easier courses. If a professor asks people re-write, he'll get thrashed in student reviews, and everyone says, 'We need to listen to the students.' So for effect, we need to change the whole institution.
This is a point that ACTA's made before. Undergraduates don't always make the soundest education decisions, either in selecting teachers or in selecting professors. That's why it's important for trustees, as fiduciaries, to re-focus institutions on student learning.
The attendees are now sharing stories about writing at the high school and college level. One note: Our Merrill Award winner, tonight, Benno Schmidt, is responsible for the introduction of a dozen writing tutors hired full time at Yale to help undergraduates write well. That's one of his many outstanding contributions to liberal arts!
Posted by Michael Pomeranz on November 05, 2010 at November 5, 2010 11:46 AM
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