“When I was young, I went to college, had a teacher who was, had been a student of Trilling's at Columbia, this was in California. And he, I started reading him around that time, and then I went to Columbia as well, Trilling was still teaching there, I took a course with him. He was not a great teacher, but he was, when I was younger, he was a good model for the kind of criticism I wanted to do, because he thought very dialectically.” WellsKindStillsWantedYoungCoursesReadingTeacherTeachingStudentsCollegeModelsCriticismCaliforniaGreat TeacherColumbia Author:Louis Menand
“My own view is that the general education curriculum that a college picks has to be appropriate for the kind of student body that it has.” KindBodyMy OwnViewsStudentsCollegePicksAppropriateCurriculumGeneral Education Author:Louis Menand
“I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.” ThinkingBodyStudentsFitCurriculum Author:Louis Menand
“You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.” CoursesStudents Author:Louis Menand
“Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover.” ThinkingKindStillsCoursesSubjectsStudentsOughtManageHarvard Author:Louis Menand
“The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.” WayNeedsMadeDecisionStudentsDegreesUniversityFacultyDecisions Made Author:Louis Menand
“Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.” KnowsNeedsTryingJobsDecisionStudentsCome UpHelpfulFacultyCurriculumInput Author:Louis Menand
“It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their schools, by their schools where they're graduate students, and that does become exploitative eventually because they're very cheap labor and there's a way in which in it's not in the institution's interest to give them a degree if they can continue to employ them, I don't think anybody thinks that way, but effectively that's the way the system is starting to work.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingDoeSchoolJobsDifficultInterestTeachingStudentsDegreesLaborInstitutionsStartingGraduatesEmployedAssistantsInstructorsGraduate StudentsCheap LaborStay In School Author:Louis Menand
