Besides, it's this or chem class.

And writing your congressmen is fantastic, they tell you to write your congressman if you want something done.

So, here you have my last slide.

I was a goofball student. When I was in high school

The study of philosophy belongs to the humanities.

I think it was a wonderful paradigm shift.

History is a branch of the humanities.

More often than not, students prefer club activities to academic classes.

Students usually like club activities better than their classes.

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But I wanted to try and enrich him.

I'd say it is. I told you that yesterday.

And the number one reason, we find, quite frankly, is they did not do well in first year science courses.

I was asked to come and I went through...

And this comes from a story about a pottery class.

And I memorized everything.

That's the most fun variable to work with.

Astronomy is the science of heavenly bodies.

Astronomy is the science of the universe.

So let me back up a little bit.

(Laughter)

Well the act of drawing airplanes

Is this how you'll teach Engineering?

Teach a solid week. Okay, I'm teaching three quarters time, but good enough.

But now we are looking at redesigning the humanities and social sciences.

We can grade models, whether it's financial models in a business class or physical models in a science or engineering class and we can grade some pretty sophisticated programming assignments.

They can't attack you there, so they attack you on a personal level.

We have two lessons in the afternoon.

Here's a video about abstract mathematics.

What about your activities outside the classroom?

I got the grammar lesson without difficulty.

And it's something they can then apply to math in the classroom, or their reading skills.

In the first lesson, we will only learn the characters and pronunciation.

John is professor of French literature at Oxford and his wife is French.

Just a few days ago, right across the street from here, there was hundreds of people gathered together.

These kids aren't using textbooks, or getting one size fits all lectures.

And across a whole range of fields from software, astronomy, natural sciences, vast areas of leisure and culture

That means the playful search for beauty was called the first activity of Man.

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The person standing at the front of the room is a professor in the History Department.

So it's not just something you do in your spare time.

These kids aren't using textbooks, they're not getting one size fits all lectures.

And that's why we do it.

Welcome to the Coursera class on Galaxies amp amp Cosmology.