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...Giving back: Students will work to help prepare other first-generation and low-income students to reach for the academic stars. Similar students at Princeton developed their own group to prepare students for college. What better role models could future Harvard students have than those who came before them...
...universal first-class elementary education chimes in. Horace Mann, architect of American public schooling, ponders the debate over private education, charter schools, and educational reform. He tells the two graduates that today’s youth must have a toolbox of knowledge if they are to build a better tomorrow. Distant in thought and dabbling on a laptop, he probably wonders why race and class discrepancies still exist in childhood learning. While Edgar informs Horace Mann about Teach for America, the waiter takes his order, pragmatism. Franklin’s eyes consider a second entrée, but just then...
...these legendary leaders in science, economics, human rights, education, medicine and ecology savor their conversation, Shirley Smart and Edgar Eager suddenly realize a common thread: Despite individual taste, the universal ingredient for a better world can ultimately be none other than inspiration. A life of meaning necessitates a diverse diet, encompassing everything from compassion, freedom, and activism to innovation, pragmatism, and perseverance. And lest we forget, nothing is complete without the crystal clear twinkle of the finest wine: le vin de Joie de Vivre...
...stories, as well as the myth and the name. It is the realization that, just like Harvard is more than the sum of her students, what defines each of us is not just our individual selves, but also how we connect to the past and pass the better parts onto the future...
...this lesson may not immediately help me to find gainful employment, it gives me an inner peace that I know I will carry with me from job to job, from city to city, and from decade to decade. Looking back at college, I could not have hoped for a better education, and I leave Harvard, above all else, with gratitude...