Written by Steven MichelsJuly 18, 2017July 10, 2020

‘I Love Learning; I Hate School’

Susan D. Blum, a professor of anthropology at Notre Dame, has written a fascinating and stark study of higher education. The short answer for why so many young people dislike college is that it’s too much like school and not enough like learning. The artifice of school has displaced our natural love of collaborative learning […]

Written by Steven MichelsMarch 21, 2016July 10, 2020

Big Learning

James Lang, the author of four books and a regular contributor to The Chronicle of Higher Education, has just published a remarkable new book on teaching and learning, called Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning. Lang, professor of English and director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption College, takes his […]