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Why the British think differently to Americans

30 March 2024

9:00 AM

30 March 2024

9:00 AM

When I first started teaching undergraduates at Harvard, the grading system the university employed struck me as very odd. Even ambitious students at top colleges in the United States see it as their job to answer any essay question in the most thorough and reasonable way. They regurgitate the dominant view in scholarly literature in a competent manner.

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