Teachers College, Columbia University — Local services in New York

It is not enough to teach a man a specialty. Through it he may become a kind of useful machine but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that the student acquire an understanding of and a lively feeling for values. He must acquire a vivid sense of the beautiful and of the morally good. Otherwise he—with his specialized knowledge—more closely resembles a well-trained dog than a harmoniously developed person. He must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings in order to acquire a proper relationship to individual fellow-men and to the community. These precious things are conveyed to the younger generation through personal contact with those who teach, not—or at least not in the main—through textbooks. It is this that primarily constitutes and preserves...

Do not get tricked to go here. It is not a Columbia school as advertised. Ask them their email address. They do not have access to Columbia's LionMail. Alumni are not granted Columbia alumni emails. Horrible education. No teacher's training or internships to get you into a teaching or school administration's career. Flimsy courses. Many from ESL speakers, unable to even speak English well, let alone teach you. Huge classes (think of 50- at a private school), led mostly by TAs, graded also by TAs, with poor, irrelevant content. Tricked by this school (ranked 2nd after Harvard my year), only to find out it was like a community college at the price of a real private school...

Graduated many years ago. Still remember a professor from the Nutrition Department canceled meeting literally 5 mins before we discussed my Master Thesis. Is it how you treat students after they paid at least 50k a year for tuition? Didn’t love the program (not very intellectual challenging) and the university + dorm as a whole looks old and outdated.

Totally agree with the other review - I get a lot more job interviews writing “Columbia” in my resume rather than...