Talk:Harkness table

"This Harkness Table is the only one of its kind, with built in power points and a wireless access point, to support the school's laptop program."

This is statement is not true, at least for the reason it states. The Harkness Tables at The Lawrenceville School (at least in the Noyes History Building) contain power outlets, ethernet ports, and a VGA and audio hookup as well as a wireless access point mounted in the class room.

Math a Science?

The status of Mathematics as a science is (at the very least) the subject of significant debate. Perhaps a better example of a scientific discipline would be: Chemistry, . . . or perhaps Physics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.1.111.178 (talk) 06:46, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

I changed it to "technical" but also added physics as an example. My complaint is that math, chemistry, and physics are also part of a liberal arts education, so that sentence is still not completely satisfactory. --Wormholio (talk) 16:37, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Exeter

"The Harkness table refers to a style of teaching used most notably by Phillips Exeter Academy"

Though I have witnessed a similar fascination with Exeter's use of Harkness tables on their website, I've never really understood why Exeter's use is so notable, especially given that the donation was made to many schools, all of which used the money to put Harkness tables in most/many classrooms. Exeter is clearly proudest among a group of peers who are all proud of the Harkness table, but unless someone can offer some justification on why Exeter's use is the most notable (vs. visible,) I think this clause should be deleted. Mjl0509 18:30, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I believe Exeter's use is most notable because it is much broader -- where other schools might only use the tables in English and history classes, for example, Exeter uses the tables throughout its curriculum.

List of schools

The current list of schools includes many which claim to use Harkness tables, but only a few were endowed by Harkness himself. As far as I can tell, the idea was hatched between Harkness and Lewis Perry of Exeter. Lawrenceville also got Harkness money. The list of schools needs to be checked. I have deleted Whitby, which doesn't mention Harkness tables on its web site, and goes through age 14. I don't know about the others. There have been a lot of anonymous additions.... --Macrakis 19:42, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Seems that the list of schools is longer than the article itself. Maybe it should be bulleted or reduced or somehow cleaned up? 124.124.87.242 (talk) 09:22, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

I've moved the list here. Individual schools can be returned if their relevance can be elaborated (not just that it uses Harkness tables). –Temporal User (Talk) 02:19, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Harkness tables have been implemented at numerous institutions, including:

• American Hebrew Academy
• Annie Wright School
• Appleby College
• Asheville School
• Ashley Hall
• Bayview Glen School
• Belmont Hill School
• Berkeley Preparatory School
• Calverton School
• Cape Henry Collegiate School
• Charleston Collegiate School
• Cheshire Academy
• Choate Rosemary Hall
• Cranbrook Schools
• Culver Academies
• Cushing Academy
• Deerfield Academy
• Emma Willard School
• The Fieldston School
• Germantown Academy
• Glenelg Country School
• Greens Farms Academy
• Greenwich Academy
• Guilford High School
• Hathaway Brown School
• Havergal College
• Highland School
• Hopkins School
• Horace Mann School
• Isidore Newman School
• Jackson State University's W. E. B. Du Bois Honor's College
• Kent School
• Kents Hill School
• Kingswood-Oxford School
• The Lawrenceville School
• Landon School
• Leysin American School
• Loomis Chaffee
• Lower Canada College, Montreal
• Maimonides School
• Memphis Jewish High School
• Mercersburg Academy
• Middlesex School
• Milton Academy
• Northfield Mount Hermon School
• Pacific Ridge School
• Palmer Trinity School
• Phillips Exeter Academy
• Porter-Gaud School
• Randolph School
• Ransom Everglades
• Regents School of Austin
• Ridgefield Academy
• Ridley College
• Rocky Hill School of East Greenwich, RI
• Rutgers Preparatory School
• Second Baptist School (Houston) Annie Wright School
• Seoul Foreign School
• Shady Side Academy
• St. Anne's-Belfield School
• St. Andrew's School (Delaware)
• St. George's School
• St. Mark's School of Texas
• St. Martin's Episcopal School
• St. Paul Academy and Summit School
• St. Paul's School (New Hampshire)
• Tampa Preparatory School
• The American School in London
• The Barrie School
• The College Preparatory School
• The Community School of Naples
• The Dunham School
• The Ensworth School
• The Episcopal Academy
• The Governor's Academy
• The Guivy Zaldastanishvili American Academy, Tbilisi
• The Hill School
• The Hotchkiss School
• The Island School
• The John Cooper School
• The Kinkaid School
• The Masters School
• The Pingry School
• The Taft School
• Upper Canada College
• Wellington College, Berkshire, UK
• Metairie Park Country Day School
• St. Martin's Episcopal School
• The Dublin School
• The Harpeth Hall School
• The Moses Brown School
• The Roxbury Latin School
• Woodberry Forest School

References

Andover

Andover is not a Harkness Table school —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.166.186.25 (talk) 20:14, 11 April 2007 (UTC).

That's not entirely true -- Andover does use Harkness tables. It doesn't require them for all classes as some other schools do, but they are certainly used, especially in the English department.

In the 1950s one of my Andover instructors, in response to a student question, said that any teacher who wanted a Harkness-style table for his classroom could get one. A few did. In many cases - small class sizes in small classrooms - there wouldn't be much point, with all the chairs against the walls. The tables would have been a boon for left-handed students, since there never seemed to be enough left-handed tablet chairs to go around. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.138.174.160 (talk) 14:00, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

History

This link no longer points to a page on the history of the table, as claimed; perhaps someone can find the correct page.

• The History of the Harkness table —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.30.142.183 (talk) 03:11, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

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