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I don't think that taste should be the decider of moral issues.


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I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.

I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.



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One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.



One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.



I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something.

I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something.



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There are limits, after all, to the idea of limits.



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Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.





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