At Yale, a psychology professor teaches the most popular course there, ever, called "Psychology and the Good Life," a total gut course if I ever heard of one. She cancelled class one day, with the proviso that the students had to use the free time for enjoyment, which is what this WaPo article is mainly about.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/less-cramming-more-frisbee-at-yale-students-learn-how-to-live-the-good-life/2018/05/12/bb02525a-4ee4-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2b3ed48b3771
But scroll down to the end and read the comments made by the (usually) liberal readers of the WaPo. The majority correctly deride this activity at Yale as foolish or worse.
Tink, if you might do a copy-and-paste of a typical comment? Cannot open WaPo, but did a search and discovered (swoon) that you can now take the online course for free!
Here are the first 13 or so comments, Virginia:
ty, Tink...idk, maybe it is beneficial to even be thinking about happiness at this point in their lives...I should talk, I did not even have the patience to sit through the professor's YouTube explanation of why she was offering the class (Yawn)...
Here are the rest (I hope).
I keep getting messages that I have exceeded the 8000 character limit. Probably something built into the text to prevent copying and pasting.
A day here and there wouldn't be so bad I suppose but a whole class? I always thought College was to learn higher education, not play grab ass! Kind of reminds me of this.
Student performance seems to be dropping off at even the best colleges, and professors such as that one encourage it with their antics.
And other professors who try to stem the tide are likely not to get support from their administrators.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/04/27/professor-fails-his-entire-class-and-his-university-intervenes
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