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A case study in screwed-up incentives.

Week 1: we picked a central passage of the book and drew a picture. Week 4: we pretended to start a business based on the book. Week 6: we drew and colored in a pictorial map of the important concepts. Week 8: we had a debate. To ensure that everyone spoke, we went around in a circle, everyone saying one sentence at a time. Middle school? Nope. This is Ethical Reasoning 18, one of the biggest (and biggest-name) courses at Harvard this past fall, as gushingly covered in the Atlantic (and less gushingly in the Crimson ). An informal poll of some friends suggests that the average total time spent

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