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While Harvard undergrads are racing from class to extracurricular to evening section, trying to cram in a half-hour of treadmill time before hunkering down in Lamont for a late-night cram session, I’m lounging on Sydney’s glorious Bondi Beach. Over the last few months, the most multitasking I’ve done has been trying to apply sunscreen while thumbing through the pages of a coursepack saturated in ocean spray...
Rather, it seems that a multitude of über-competitive students refrain from studying abroad because they fear either missing out on leadership in their extracurricular of choice, or having less time to bolster their GPA (study abroad grades all transfer credit as Pass/Fail at Harvard...
That Harvard College today is called a “college” is a lie. It is a guilty charity for lazy professors to spread their knowledge once in a while. And so it is that students routinely say in senior surveys that they learn more from their extracurricular activities than from their classes. If there is any single condemnation of the modern research university, it is this. We have separated the people who teach from the people who learn, and still expect to disseminate knowledge in the quality that we used to. What foolishness...
...part of its goal to link education with life beyond the classroom, the report urges the creation of an “activity-based learning” initiative to forge stronger links between students’ academic life and their extracurricular pursuits...
...stave off students’ mental evaporation for an additional four years. Rather than encouraging colleges to institute mandatory civics courses, which might only delay a drop-off in knowledge retention four more years, the ISI should help promote ways of keeping political engagement alive outside the classroom. Extracurricular political organizations like Harvard’s Institute of Politics (IOP), which coordinates political activities and sponsors speakers and events, offer students an applied learning experience that is unlikely to be replicated in high schools. Raising the profile of groups like the IOP will do much more for improving civic awareness...