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...came here expecting creativity, curiosity, and intellectual excitement. I have found it in abundance, but not in the classroom. I have found it in hallways and in basements, on couches and over tables, murmured along sidewalks or shouted in dorm rooms. Time and time again, Harvard students have shown themselves entirely capable of discarding tired academic rhetoric and making their own connections between their reading materials and the world around them. But whatever ingenuity we have seems to get left at the door on the way in to section...
...accessible, why waste mental space on facts like the population of Russia or the circumference of a circle? Humans have limited mental capacity. Even Sherlock Holmes had to purge his mind of random trivia occasionally to make room for more important matters. Rote memorization, long a mainstay of the classroom, is now relegated to Classics concentrators and those people who play online trivia games for fun. For the first time in centuries, humans can store all those pesky facts on Wikipedia and devote their entire minds to thinking...
...integrity of medical education at Harvard,” said David C. Tian, a first-year student who recently pushed the administration to adopt a policy addition mandating that faculty and students disclose financial ties to pharmaceutical companies when discussing drugs developed by those companies in the classroom...
...analysis of leaving your dorm after dark, living in Yale housing, or eating Yale food. Studying environmental degradation? There’s no better research project than examining the fascinating New Haven air. You think you can learn about “Justice” by sitting in a classroom? When a deranged thief who’s broken into your dorm room forces you to choose between sacrificing your own life or your roommate’s, trust us: the hypothetical doesn’t compare...
...comfort zones is an essential aim of the School of Life, which opened in September. Situated in Bloomsbury, once home to London literati like E.M. Forster and Virginia Woolf, the school promises "intelligent instruction on how to lead a fulfilled life." Physically, it's a small bookshop with a classroom in the basement, but it has the earnest feel of a book club hosted by a psychotherapist. Instruction can take the form of six-week courses on family, love, play, politics or work ($320), or can involve spending an hour with one of the school's experts ($80), including...