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This is Slow Reading, a newsletter of criticism from a philologist and writer who often has thoughts that his editors aren't sure they want to pay for.
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On Perpetual Studenthood (opens the original)
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My friend had an excellent piece in the New York Times recently about the need for professors, and indeed for teachers of all kinds, to stay a little bit weird. A large part of what he means by this is that we need to be unabashed about our own enthusiasm for what we’re teaching, and one of the ways that we can do this is by challenging ourselves to teach something that we’ve never taught before, or to teach something in an entirely new way. Allowing ourselves to be a more experienced, more ma
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