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...Dauber seems to think that arrogance and education are unique to boarding school history. Has he forgotten that at one time Harvard University was only for the wealthy, Protestant, white, upper-class Massachusetts elite? Indeed, for most of Harvard's history, from its founding through the the 1950s, the "spoiled teenagers from the suburbs" from Dauber's imaginary boarding school made up virtually all of Harvard's students...
...Dauber writes, "If American boarding schools are falling apart, we need not waste our tears on them." This assessment is all too common; just last night a friend wanted to know about my "posh boarding school...
Take a look at the pictures on the fifth floor of Lamont. They show Lamont first opening to accommodate Harvard's homogeneous white male coat-and-tie student body. Then, by Dauber's logic, we should have expected Harvard to indeed "bow out gracefully" around the 1960s, as diversity began to prove itself increasingly important in education...
...Dauber claims that boarding schools today are "racing to keep up with teenagers' wishes." While boarding schools are changing, they're not pandering to greedy teenagers; they're changing as education changes, by diversifying, moving into the computer age, taking advantage of new technologies in the classroom, and addressing contemporary issues...
...that boarding schools have the potential to solve some of today's toughest campus issues. The small, intimate boarding school community lends itself to really getting to know other students for the people they are -- not for the superficial and stereotypical liberal lable-of-the-day. I think Dauber may be surprised to learn that boarding school exposed me to a greater diversity of people and ideas than I ever would have gotten at home in "suburbia." --Noble M. Hansen...