Class Notes
A blog about the art of teaching, with new posts each Tuesday by Paula Marantz Cohen, a distinguished professor of English at Drexel University and the author of the novels Jane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death and the SATs and What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper.
Previous posts
- The Teaching Cure
- Existential Teaching
- Love the One You’re With
- Hidden Meanings
- The Search for Wonder
- Teachers of the World, Unite!
- Urban Encounters
- How to Do What You Do?
- Tastemakers
- Going Non-Native
- Mother-in-Law Studies
- Teaching and Suspense
- A Workout for the Mind
- Giving Away the Store
- The Lopsided Bias of Unconditional Belief
- Based on a True Story
- Beyond Words
- Major Decisions
- Vocational Crisis
- Returning to Matthew Arnold
- Christie and Obama’s Romantic Plot
- The University as Welfare State
- Confucianism in China Today
- On the Road
- Inside the NFL
- Working Lunch
- Master of the Examined Life
- Writing Addiction
- Critical But Kind
- Agelessness in Academia
- Money, Leisure, Death
- Yiddishisms
- The Hobart Shakespeareans
- All Doctors Should Teach
- Not Einstein
- Reading Caliban
- Hate Email
- Why I Hate the College Application Essay
- Chumps at Oxford
- Finally Teaching King Lear
- Parent-Teacher
- Teaching vs. Mentoring
- Changing Places
- The Nostalgia of the College Student
- Devil’s Bargain
- What Makes a Good Enough Education?
- Tri-teaching
- Teaching The Wire
- Death of a Salesman—Seen vs. Imagined
- The Ladder of Craft
- Stand-Up 101
- The New Curated Self
- Against Educational Reform
- The Seven Ages of Teaching
- Byte-sized Life
- Crash-Course America
- Lessons from The History Boys
- Montaigne on Education
- Tune Out, Turn Off
- Education and Brainwashing
- Teaching and Mental Illness
- Giving Diversity Its Due
- Dr. Johnson’s Profession
- Tracking
- Teaching Creative Writing
- Social vs. Private Good in Education
- Nature, Nurture, Fortune, Will
- John Dewey
- Life Coaches
- The Globalized Recipe for Education
- The Esthetics of Teaching
- Teaching the Domestic Novel
- Orson Welles on Reading Shakespeare Aloud
- Some Thoughts on the Marriage Plot
- Chinese Starter Course
- As You Like It
- The Vocation of Teaching and the Penn State Scandal
- Writer’s Block
- Teach for America
- Learning from My Mother
- Food and Learning
- Older Students
- The Small Orchestra Class
- The Tidal Wave of the New
- Teaching with Peter
- Learning and its Limits
- Habit
- In Pursuit of the Headless Horseman
