If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
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One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
I don't have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.
The students I have come in contact with at Harvard are highly competent individuals who prefer to be challenged and respond well to encouragement.
Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.
At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
When you have a brilliant idea, nobody is going to ask to see your diploma.
There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.
A self-defined challenge is an irresistible teacher.
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future.
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