Rather than having students be lectured at by a teacher at the front of the classroom, the Harkness Table seats faculty and students around an oval table encouraging interactivity and discourages passivity in the learning process. It also is at the core of an educational philosophy which holds that "Civilized discourse must be at the core of all good education and all full lives."
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What I have in mind is [a classroom] where [students] could sit around a table with a teacher who would talk with them and instruct them by a sort of tutorial or conference method, where [each student] would feel encouraged to speak up. This would be a real revolution in methods.
--Edward Harkness
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71 Portsmouth Ave, Exeter NH 03833 \ telephone: 603.778.8866 \ email: info@harknesstable.com
Rather than having students be lectured at by a teacher at the front of the classroom, the Harkness Table seats faculty and students around an oval table encouraging interactivity and discourages passivity in the learning process. It also is at the core of an educational philosophy which holds that "Civilized discourse must be at the core of all good education and all full lives."
