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...Crane is particularly happy at the response from the latter, and continues to introduce Perseus to that audience. Dozens of high schools already have test copies, and next month Crane will address a conference for this purpose...
...Crane points to the differences in the meaning of "respect" as an example: respect for people and respect for Gods are two different words in Greek; furthermore, "respect" for a king connotes servility. Perseus makes word derivations far more available to the student, thereby radically changing another logistical problem formally intrinsic to this kind of study...
Although the Fogg show marks Perseus's completion as a database, Crane plans to expand beyond Harvard. Perseus has been published by Yale University Press, and will be marketed shortly. While Crane recognizes that Perseus will not be widely distributed for a while, he is encouraged by the enthusiastic response from other universities and high schools...
...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...