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...literally, the best young fencers, scientists, and journalists in the country come to this school. But from these people, who are for the most part entirely cool, interesting and compassionate, you will receive a better education than you could anywhere else. I guess the education I get inside the classroom is okay, too.So that’s why I decided to stay, because even in my most cynical moments, while lost in the stacks of Widener or trapped in the perpetual daylight of The Crimson basement, I realized that I still had a lot of learning to do. Because, frankly...
...better for college, and especially a college like Harvard,” Hudson says. “As a homeschooler, a lot of it is kind of up to you in taking very personal ownership of your education.”Sizer of the GSE says a structured classroom isn’t always necessary for sparking academic interests.“Sometimes you still need a teacher to tell you a few stories about Thomas Jefferson to get you interested in him, but sometimes you don’t,” Sizer says.She adds that the extra time...
...magazine, Apr. 13. Those who scoff at Harvard Extension School’s distance education program merely underscore their limited understanding of education today. Harvard College students are wrong to assume that Harvard Extension School students can’t get an equally great education online, outside the traditional classroom, as those who have the opportunity to study on campus. The Harvard Extension School proves that a great American education is possible in more ways than one. JEREMIAH D. BRAUNLIN Ulster Park, N.Y. April...
...whose class on classical geometry is open to both undergrads and Extension School students, echoes Greenberg’s positive experience with HES. Bamberg emphasizes that everyone is held to the same standards, saying that, “they all sit in the same classroom and take the same exams, and over the past three years the Extension students have done as well as the undergraduates.” According to Bamberg, the two highest grades last year were earned by Extension students. For the past two years Extension students outperformed their peers on his midterm—one even...
...Florida on Sept. 11, 2001, when initial reports suggested a small twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. "What a horrible accident; the pilot must have had a heart attack or something," the President had said to Card. Later, while Bush was inside a school classroom, Card learned that it looked like a jet liner, and that there was a second plane. "I stood at the door and wondered, If I were President, would I want to know that?" Card recalled. "The answer is obvious. The challenge of how to tell the President became the burden...