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Public speaking is eminently important in today’s world. It is a necessity both in the classroom at Harvard and in the quest to succeed in the working world. The people who are most successful at achieving their goals are arguably those who can express their ideas in the most convincing and articulate manner to those around them. And to be an active citizen and leader—the type of person Harvard seeks to mold—one must be able to speak well...
...contrast to the current Core Curriculum, which focuses on approaches to knowledge, the new proposal strives to connect a student’s liberal arts education to life outside the classroom...
...proposed program connects liberal education to life outside Harvard. “The ambition of the program of general education,” the report reads, “... is to enable undergraduates to put all the learning they are doing at Harvard, outside as well as inside the classroom, in the context of the people they will be and the lives they will lead after college.” The report recommends that students complete one half-course in each of seven areas: “Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change,” “The Ethical...
...curricular review—to give students a global perspective. Over 20 members of campus groups, from Ballet Folklorico to Harvard Model United Nations, put on four workshops for the girls. While a panel of three international students answered questions and helped the girls decorate mock passports in one classroom, another shook as students in Gumboots and Ballet Folklorico taught step dances from South African mines and Mexico. “It puts a smile on my face,” Marisol Pineda Conde ’08 of Ballet Folklorico said as the SWSG girls twirled in colorful skirts...
...them out to the playground? That's no more absurd than banning tag. Sure, kids often get hurt. It is our job as teachers and parents to help them set effective physical and psychological boundaries through discussion and role play. I suggest that district administrators watch kids in the classroom after a recess without active physical play. Kids badly need this kind of break in their academic day. Being motivated by fear of lawsuits sends an awful message to kids: fear and money reign...