

Ghosts in the Classroom
On the first day of each new semester we teachers gaze out upon a sea of new faces, all of them here to make a better future. We assume...


The Age of Distraction
I spent New Year's Eve in a crowd of professorial types and teachers. One of our number, a classic bald physics professor, announced that...


Whose Work Is It?
Students are up to their necks in expectations. Family, school, advertising, religion, hormones... all make demands on them, on their...