November 8, 2009
'Lives on the Boundary' at 20
Somebody recently suggested that politicians who oppose health-care reform have either forgotten or never known what it was like to be without medical insurance.
A parallel may exist in the educational world, where once we become experts in an academic field we forget what it was like to have been clueless about it. Becoming smart about our subjects makes us pedagogically stupid. Forgetting that there was once a time when even we—staggeringly brilliant scientist or humanist
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