Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Confident Wait. The opera is typical of everything the romantics fought when they rebelled against classicism: it is full of beautiful melodies but undramatic, full of abstract nobility but without real human beings. Nor was Alcestis improved by the Met's pseudo-Greek staging and top-heavy production featuring, among other banalities, steam puffing from Hades and two clumsy and amateurish ballets...
Second, Melman said, is the possibility of human error, of "wrongly estimating the intentions of others." He cited a recent incident where radar signals bouncing off the moon were mistaken for incoming Russian missiles...
Because debates on education at Harvard often sound coldly formal and abstract a study of learning as the interaction of human beings is a welcome thing. Learning should be a dialogue between men, as well as the imparting of a discipline; frequently what is of lasting value in a course is not its content, but the chance it has offered to meet a great teacher. In the most recent Harvard Educational Review there is an article by Dean Whitla, instructor in Education and Director of the Office of Tests, concerned with education as the interaction of human beings. Part...
...faculty to identify with, he generally assumed that this process was a necessary part of finding his own identity. Thus a disappointed student said: "If there was one criticism I have of Harvard, it would be the lack of men I look up to as human beings. In my opinion, education to a certain extent should bring you into contact with human beings who you feel have travelled further than you have in a spiritual sense, not just in terms of intellect, but in terms of being a human being... I frankly didn't run into one person, one human...
...that Whitla talks about is the assumption that education is not only (and perhaps not mainly) academic. He believes it is also the imparting of a set of ideas and values which serve the student for life. It is clear that he thinks Harvard is less aware of the human aspects of being educated than it could be. And, indirectly, one could tie in much of "Encounters with Learning" with a host of current Harvard issues: expansion in a college where students feel anonymous, the need for a good non-Honors tutorial program, and, above all, the need for recognition...