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...sipping tea with my professors or discussing world affairs over a sandwich at lunch. Life would become one big journey of philosophizing and intellectual discussion with some of the greatest minds of this century, who would (after a few minutes of enlightening discourse) inform me that I was the brightest student they had ever met and that I would go on to one day do many great and brilliant things...
It’s hard to be mad at Teach for America (TFA). The program has done so much over the past 15 years to draw attention to the inexcusable inequalities that exist in our public schools. It’s led so many of the brightest students in the nation to seriously consider teaching as a post-college option—eight percent of us here at the College applied last year, and numbers will probably continue to rise.Yet, for a program bringing top minds into the education world, TFA is sending some very dangerous messages about the teaching...
...Monday, September 20, 1954. Eleven hundred sixty-two of the best and brightest young men in the world were lined up outside that monstrous Victorian gothic structure known as Memorial Hall. To register as members of the future Harvard class...
Wintour wasn’t in attendance, but the brightest stars of Harvard society stood in. There they all were. H-Bomb cover star Kevin C.L. Ching ’06. Heineken heir Alexander A.C. De Carvalho ’08. Erica S. Birmingham ’06 (see page 18). This was Harvard’s wonder class, our future fashionistas, tastemakers-to-be. Their week beats our year, and Scene is a monument in their honor...
...noted that in recent years the U.S. has fallen from being the third-largest bestower of degrees in these disciplines to the 17th-largest. Smith said the government has exacerbated this problem by discouraging many of those who graduate with these degrees, some of the “brightest international students,” from staying in the United States to pursue their careers. “Today the message from Washington is that these people should go home,” said Smith. He added that immigration laws have been tightened and “the shortage of visas...