Word: craned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attributes this success to the database's open-ended possibilities for creativity and exploration, rather than its maintenance of academic dogma, both in method and content. Crane believes that most students are "sick of text books and canned answer...
...Crane sees Perseus's potential accessibility as the core of his "populist and staunchly democratic ideal," something he regrets not seeing more of at Harvard. He feels that the current reality of academics only writing for academics is "not viable." "We need in the Humanities to engage the imagination and intelligence of people outside our field. We need to get the populace to have discipline and skepticism...
...Civil War television series, and its enthusiastic response, as the beginnings of higher public involvement in formerly scholarly pursuits. Rather than spending all of their time passively watching, the public--with some combination of video and computer--could potentially spend "[thirty minutes] watching, and [ninety minutes] browsing for information." Crane's computer database combines the "popular and the scholarly...
Unfortunately, Crane realizes that most of the Harvard community "assumes that most normal people aren't going to do this. "However, he knows that an interaction with the public is essential: "Nobody is going to support us for very long if they perceive us as caring for nothing but ourselves. Social scientists and natural scientists address key problems like how to maintain the economy and how to stop AIDS...we have to address ideas that resonate with in the population and provide intellectual leadership...
...present, Crane sees that Harvard perpetuates this problem. "Institutionally, Harvard does not provide enough incentives for faculty to set their work and ideas in a wider context. In many disciplines, there is no incentive but to write for other specialists." As a result, there is a "disproportionate share of the brightest minds not being directed at the most seminal problems...