When Less is More: Progressive Teaching in Practice

An opinion piece by Lisa Scottoline in yesterday's New York Times about her experience years ago of having Philip Roth as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania beautifully describes great teaching style. The approach Roth, already luminously famous by the time of Scottoline's story, took to engaging with his students can only be described as masterful. And totally counterintuitive: a class from a master writer who steadfastly refuses to tell students how to write. Progressive teaching and learning at its best.