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...Foundation, of which Bowen is president, was responsible for building the study's database...
...Bowen spent the past few weeks discussing their book in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Last Wednesday they spoke to various members of the Massachusetts' academic and political communities about their findings, Burkhart said...
...remarkable thing [about the debate] is that there have been very few facts. It was largely based on anecdotes and impassioned rhetoric," said Bok, who co-authored the book with former Princeton University President William G. Bowen. "Our hope was to move the debate to a higher level...
...book Higher Learning, former Harvard President Derek C. Bok made a detailed assessment of the worth of a Harvard undergraduate education. According to a study conducted by Harold Bowen in 1977, Harvard teaches students a great deal of "substantive knowledge," and those students make "moderate gains" in verbal skills. Critical thinking tends to improve and students in quantitative concentrations show dramatic improvements in mathematical ability. More personally, seniors seem to know themselves much better than they did their first year, as measured by their own awareness of their "aspirations, abilities, and limitations...
Wright does a fine job of explaining the opening chapters of my new book, Should You Leave?, especially the sections that deal with the solutions to marital discord proposed by the mid-century psychiatrist Murray Bowen. Bowen favored an "autonomous" posture with the qualities Wright mentions: cerebral detachment, an American "inner directedness." What Wright does not say is that I spend the rest of the book questioning the ideal of autonomy. For most people, a desirable relationship contains passion, mutuality, obligation, unselfconsciousness--the opposite of detachment. Autonomy--independence--is our premier national value, but it can make for strange bedfellows...