Word: developed
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...Bill Gates left the College to develop Microsoft, making him a billionaire—and one of Harvard’s most successful dropouts...
...could lose out on opportunities to develop technologies that save energy and treatments that save lives...
...that a Harvard education should “seek to prepare students for civic engagement, to teach students to understand themselves as products of—and participants in—traditions of art, ideas, and values, to prepare students to respond critically and constructively to change, and to develop students’ understanding of the ethical dimensions of what they say and do.” Exploring gender, and challenging gender inequity, complements these goals, and will thus continue to be the focus of our work. Far from having a rigid view of what gender can and should mean...
...reason is that education is so much more than the mere transfer of information. The information has to be assimilated. Students have to connect the information to what they already know, develop mental models, learn how to apply the new knowledge, and how to adapt this knowledge to new and unfamiliar situations...
...Oddly, that is probably the key to a Harvard education. Somehow we collectively manage to provide just the right learning environment for our students to develop inquiring minds. And so the degrees that are conferred today do not so much reflect the answers that our students have given, but the questions they have asked...