Learning Beyond the Classroom

This February, the Task Force on General Education issued a report calling for the creation of a committee to “develop an initiative in activity-based learning.” The report suggested that an activity-based learning program could capitalize on Harvard’s flourishing extracurricular life, allowing students to forge “an intellectual link” between their academic pursuits and their endeavors outside of the classroom. Many have bristled at this promotion of activity-based learning, worried that classes would co-opt students’ extracurricular activities, transforming them into another form of stressful academic drudgery.

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