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to learn by doing with help from a mentor. We

teaching always meant apprenticeship. We are set

teaching could never have looked this way.

we look at teaching in precisely the way that our

has become more important in the academic world.

allows faculty to work only on experiments about

I moved from Yale to Northwestern to establish a new

but answers don’t matter very much. Teachers

but that that wasn’t as important to them as

remember about what I taught them. Hadn’t

this seems to work for every audience out

you assured me that you have to just say

“Anyone care to follow that act?” Your clearly

(now tenured professors mostly and some industry executives)

that you had to memorize what they told you and

the stories about watching the Yankees from the elevated

he talked a great deal about his own experiences. His

he became a good Socratic teacher. He forced

became a good teacher. I say it that way because he

but that is another issue. But it is really