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...Heinzerling says, without much disagreement over major concepts. If they diverged, the professors would inform the students that the issue was still contested.“You don’t want to walk away thinking, ‘oh, what my professor is saying is the absolute truth,’” she says.Students said that stylistic variations between professors, however, worked to invigorate the courses.“With two different lecture styles, it breaks things up, students have something new to look forward to,” Adolphson says. “The new style...
...insidious rumors I heard about Harvard, this one turned out to be true. Students do get lost in the crowd. In fact, most of the crowd is lost. We know we cannot simply wait to be discovered, but it might be nice if someone noticed that we existed.The sad truth is that I have arrived at Commencement with almost no meaningful faculty relationships. The sadder truth is that so have many of my classmates. And our college experiences have suffered for it. Great faculty relationships can yield stellar advising and inspirational mentorship. The absence of those relationships inevitably results...
...forget them. In most analyses of Harvard’s turmoil, too much has been made of the mysterious uniqueness of academic culture. Instead, most of these lessons about leadership and change are common knowledge among business managers and engineers: A leader’s personal style matters, if truthfulness, kindness, and humility are considered matters of style. Part of the myth is that professors didn’t like the president’s “style,” as though they objected mainly to his tailoring or as though fey humanists were not used...
...reason in danger, Summers said that the theory of evolution is being challenged in U.S. public schools more today than ever in the last 100 years. He said that “consensus and comfort” should never be held above “the value of truth.” “When the airing and incorporation of diverse views becomes the end rather than the means, then we set the bar too low,” Summers said. When his speech concluded, the audience gave him a standing ovation. “It was humorous...
...abused child, running away from home, life as a lot lizard turning tricks with passing truck drivers, drug addiction, and HIV—rough, troubled authenticity. Then one day, poof, he disappears, leaving behind unsettling doubts—how much of our own reality depends on artificial, constructed truths?Our personal identity has been constructed for us. Immersed in media from the moment of birth, we’ve already seen every meaningful moment of our existence enacted a thousand times on the TV screen. From meeting the parents to soft crying at a funeral, movies and television have carefully...