Word: classroom
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...continue putting together a class composed not just of valedictorians or students of one race, it must sometimes go beyond the numbers to experiences. Having students of different backgrounds, races and interests at Harvard helps foster an environment where students can learn from each other not only in the classroom but also in discussions about their lives...
...refusal to fully develop ethnic studies. The premise behind using affirmative action to pursue diversity is that minority students here have cultivated a certain rich perspective which other students can draw from. Their people have a history and their experiences have a legitimacy--but only, it seems, outside the classroom. They somehow lose their validity when confronted by the white pillars of academia. What it says is that what we can learn from minorities exists only at food fests or in cultural show extravaganzas...
...saying that he wanted his house dues to pay for beer, foosball tables and good washing machines. That's a long way from A. Lawrence Lowell's original vision of the house system. He hoped students and faculty would experience Harvard by interacting with each other outside of the classroom, in the intimate atmosphere of the houses. Beer and foosball are great, but they don't teach you a whole lot about people and where they come from. Religion is one forum for that kind of interaction, as long as it is inclusive and educational...
...that view, of course. But in decisions dating back at least 30 years, courts have ruled that the separation of church and state forbids religious groups to make the Bible part of the public-school curriculum. That hasn't stopped folks from trying. Rather than teach Genesis in the classroom, however, they now try to discredit evolution by teaching seemingly scientific but subtly Bible-based alternatives...
...loophole by stipulating that schools could teach "a variety of scientific theories about the origins of humankind." That sounds reasonable. If scientists argue about the merits of one theory as opposed to another, why shouldn't anti-evolutionists be able to present their side of the controversy in the classroom...