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...paper during reading period: see you later.” Alas, while scanning the particulars of the class’s requirements, rarely do we challenge the overwhelming assumption on which the grades are divvied up. For the mistaken—if understandable??belief in the desirability of continuous academic assessment, where a multitude of different factors contribute to one’s final grade, lies at the root of many of the current problems with undergraduate education at Harvard...
...Understandable??but nonetheless misguided. This unconditional devotion to the government is anathema to democracy. Blind supporters think they are being patriotic, but in fact, they weaken the institutions they seek to protect. If we don’t speak up against the ills of our own governments, we relinquish the safeguards of democracy. And if the government then leads the nation astray, we become complicit in its crimes...