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...arts are not in danger… but the arts don’t have the educational importance that the strength in society would suggest they might,” Croft says. “Creativity is a fundamental characteristic of what it means to be a human being??if educational spaces think that this is a frill, that that is something that is not essential to the enterprise of educating people, then they are just wrong.”Croft and Clapp also emphasize that the Discussion Group aims to investigate the relationship between arts and creativity...
...Harvard. What was your love life like?AB: My love life as a Harvard student was pretty much non-existent. This is the problem with campuses like Harvard and other very high-achieving, high-strung campuses—it’s that people become devalued. A human being??—a friend, a girlfriend, a boyfriend—is number six or seven on the list of extracurriculars, if that. So if people are reading this, one thing I would encourage them to do is to really value those human connections. 7. FM: How has your Harvardian...
...these reasons and more, the theater community is at its core open to all. The appearance of it being??in Wong’s words—“exclusive and relatively confined” is perhaps a result of specific students putting in extraordinary time and effort to appear in not one, but multiple shows each semester. Moreover, these supposedly too familiar faces of Harvard’s theater begin as newcomers and continue to endure rejections and disappointments every year. Such students should be commended for passionately pursuing their craft, not used as targets...
...High-achieving Ivy Leaguers no doubt should be proud of their academic records and their long and impressive resumes—but, they ought not, at least not for the time being??think themselves capable or deserving of rule...
...This greater measure of argumentative complexity need not disempower or limit Democratic political discourse to elite technocrats. Rather, an emphasis on concreteness will facilitate a more robust and inclusive democracy that forces us to recognize that every voter—and every human being??has something to offer. “The man who wears the shoe knows best that it pinches and where it pinches,” Dewey insisted, “even if the expert shoemaker is the best judge of how the trouble is to be remedied...