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...letting students place out of courses through taking examinations. But that recommendation has potentially dubious ramifications. One exciting thing about coming to Harvard is that, even if you have had schooling that would by some standards seem infrior, once you arrive here that past can be forgoten. The untracked curruculum makes for a strong measue of equality. That equality enables students to rid themselves of insecurities and potentially crushing inferiority complexes. Under a placing-out plan, students would in effects be told that they are smarter or dumber, more or less disadvantaged than others. The psychological damage of such divisins...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: Right premise, wrong recommendation | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

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