Word: academia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...assume that the "scientists in Mendelssohn's course and Jews in Harris' course" have "frittered away a valuable opportunity to explore unfamiliar intellectual realms" is to assume that the average Harvard student is incapable of being driven to a higher level of understanding through already-familiar realms of academia. A much more attractive and positive assumption would require us to abandon the view that Harvard students always look for the easy way out and sometimes take a course with a familiar title in the catalog in order to advance to a higher level of understanding within the particular subject...
...assume that the "scientists in Mendelssohn's course and Jews in Harris' course" have "frittered away a valuable opportunity to explore unfamiliar intellectual realms" is to assume that the average Harvard student is incapable of being driven to a higher level of understanding through already-familiar realms of academia. A much more attractive and positive assumption would require us to abandon the view that Harvard students always look for the easy way out and sometimes take a course with a familiar title in the catalog in order to advance to a higher level of understanding within the particular subject...
Sommers plans to write two books with the results from the study. The first will be a scholarly book for academia and the second will be geared towards students...
...student weaned from the teat of academia, perhaps pursuing a career in I-banking or consulting, be gratified with books alone? Obviously, "getting down" and "shaking one's booty" is priority one for individuals dismayed with the closing of final clubs...
...Lorenzo Wainscott Pagano: And we cannot ignore our roots in the electronic avant-gardism of 1950s Paris. These synthesizers may be used in pop music, but their roots are in high academia. And we don't forget that...