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...softly, but he never soft-pedaled. And he knew how to be both compassionate and authoritative. He was "Mister" Rogers, after all, never "Fred." He wore a tie even when he dressed down. He also respected children's intelligence, and while he used the Land of Make-Believe to teach lessons, he never puffed up kids with false promises and fantasy. There is no more un-Disneyfied sentiment in children's pop culture than the title of his song Wishes Don't Make Things Come True...
...doing what he had done as a boy in Latrobe, Pa., when he played with puppets to calm himself after hearing scary news reports. And perhaps one reason his death touched adults so deeply is the feeling that Mister Rogers left us when we could especially use someone to teach us to manage our children's fears...
...shouldn’t, and now there is an alternative. Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin ’59 has proposed to teach a one-semester alternative that covers both mainstream economics and their critiques. Ec 10 is two semesters, the fall covering microeconomics and the spring, macroeconomics. While students in Marglin’s course would leave the class knowing as much about neoclassical microeconomics as those taking Ec 10, they would also be exposed to current debates between economists. Marglin will even use the same textbook as Feldstein. After the fall semester, students will rejoin Feldstein...
Feldstein says that an introductory economics course should teach only the neoclassical economic model, and that if students are interested in the critique of that model, they should go on to take higher-level courses. However, many students never take higher-level courses, and if there is a broader view of economics within the field, why should students be denied the opportunity to study it in an introductory course...
...From the mouth of a politician (witness Trent Lott’s quick demise), a poem like “Somebody blew up America” would be defamation; in the voice of a poet, it remains shielded by the nomenclature of Art. As much as our experiences might teach us otherwise, more often than not our educations keep art in the safe harbor of the apolitical...