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...than being bad at math. "You need to hear people suffering from dyscalculia, how hard it is for them to do everyday things, just going to the shop, counting change," says Roi Cohen Kadosh, a research fellow at University College London (UCL). Other practical impossibilities for dyscalculics: balancing a checkbook, planning for retirement, being a baseball fan. The list goes...
Think your History and Literature degree qualifies you to balance your checkbook? According to a man known as “the Tax Detective,” you couldn’t be more wrong. Last Friday, Jim Briggs led students through Taxes 101 in the second of a series of workshops open to Harvard University students. According to Briggs, who is a former IRS agent and co-founder of the Chesapeke Bagel Factory, Harvard students “have a long way to go” before they grasp the ins and outs of taxes...
...being added, the committee report says, because graduates of Harvard "will have to decide, for example, what medical treatments to undergo, when a defendant in court has been proven guilty, whether to support a policy proposal and how to manage their personal finances." Does this mean balancing a checkbook is on a par with balancing equations? What about learning for learning's sake? What about the study of history, which Harvard will no longer require, even though its recently announced new president, Drew Gilpin Faust--the first woman to head the institution--is a renowned historian...
...proposal convinces me that within thirty years another revamping won’t be needed. Instead the College needs to foster a return to liberal arts proper—a place where knowledge is not taught to develop abstract modes of inquiry or help one vote and balance a checkbook...
...place. That's how I found myself in the hangar-sized Peacock Room of Tokyo's opulent Imperial Hotel, rubbing shoulders with the cream of Japan's corporate class. These were men - they were almost all men - who control companies worth billions of dollars. I control a checkbook that sometimes has a positive balance, making me something of an impostor at an event to which Japanese executives jostle to earn an invitation...