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To preserve academic comfort zones, we must sometimes step out of them

To preserve academic comfort zones, we must sometimes step out of them

I once served as an assistant to a professor whose approach to teaching consisted of bestowing a static set of knowledge on the ignorant. Each week, I would meet with my undergraduate discussion groups and, because they were too overwhelmed with seemingly random information to make any sense of it, we would review the lecture […]…