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...educational possibilities of the report, none of these things—Dewey, the Red Book, or professorial writings—were consciously used in the drafting of the report. Instead, the ideas came from the committee itself.“We came quickly to agreement on the basic philosophy and rationale in our very first meeting early in the summer,” Ford Professor of Human Evolution David Pilbeam writes in an e-mail, “with no mention of the [Red Book] or educational philosophies.”Whether the report was influenced by philosophy or personal...
...students agree on the basic premise that our own personal connection to a campus worker should not determine what happens to her if she is treated unjustly, we must insist that Harvard protect the rights of all workers, not just the most visible ones, and enforce a labor code of conduct to this...
...member of the Workers Rights Consortium, Harvard claims to adhere to a basic framework of values in its labor practices. But these are poorly defined and all too nebulous. They include the intangible commitment to “honesty and integrity in all dealings,” and an obligatory “respect for the rights, differences, and dignity of others.” But these promises didn’t protect Saintely Paul, a janitor in William James, from being fired unjustly after fainting on the job. Harvard rehired him with full back pay only after a cooperative...
...innate value of novels, poems, symphonies, plays, paintings, and a host of other works of art. Surely, the appreciation of beauty, artistic achievement, and the richness of the human experience is just as relevant to an educated person in the modern world as is competence in analytical skills and basic scientific concepts.It is not sufficient, furthermore, to combine both literature and art into one broad category. Although the study of either literature or art offers an avenue to understanding and appreciation of the human experience, each does so in a different way. Accordingly, the skill sets used in each artistic...
...Australian art. Until recently, the nation's cultural treasures have rarely registered on the Japanese radar. "It's sports, nature and bushfire, koala and kangaroo," Nakayama says of the popular perception. But with the 2006 Australia-Japan Year of Exchange marking the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between the two countries, museum director Norio Shimada together with Nakayama, who completed her fine-arts masters at the University of Adelaide, decided the time was right to add depth to the Australian image. Which is how 70 works by 35 artists now find themselves...