I require that my students read this in intro to modern philosophy. As simplistic as such self-help lit can be, I require that they read short two-page workbook summaries of each habit for all my classes, or the text itself, as the model helps students apply critical thinking to their own lives.
For instance, for Fairfield's first strategic goal of integrating learning across the core, Covey's habit of synergizing suggests ways to seek commonalities across seemingly disconnected issues, problems and people. Likewise for the second goal of integrating living and learning, the "Be Proactive" habit helps students see what they can control in their lives, and what they can't. My undergrads are often shocked to realize, for example, that they choose to be in class and can control whether they go or not. Likewise, "Seek first to understand" teaches concrete ways to deal with every kind of conflict--whether between warring roommates, battling opinions in class, or competing theories in readings. Time comes, I could also share all my short Pass/Fail writing assignments I give using the habits.
Mind you, Covey is limited as is any text. As Dr. Paul Farmer, the activist at the core of the book Mountains Beyond Mountains, suggested, we in consumer culture need to get beyond personal "effectiveness" to responsible citizenship--something Covey himself hints at, although his ideas can be abused by the most self-interested. I'd grade it an A-.
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