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Harvard President Drew G. Faust announced on Friday a new public service initiative to support The Greater Boston Food Bank—the largest hunger-relief organization in New England and one of the largest in the country...
...interviewer, contented himself with pitching softballs (How is the Harvard of the '60s and '70s different from that today?) and inane questions (Imagine a freshman asks you, "What do you want me to get out of this? What kind of person should I become in the next four years?"). Faust, the humble historian, talked about diversity and lauded the Q guide as an example of Harvard's dedication to quality teaching. (Unfortunately, only the first ten minutes of Faust's interview were posted on Charlie Rose's Web site...
...Faust seemed to only really get excited when Rose got talking about education itself. Indulge in Faust-isms after the jump...
...Faust: "Both yes, and no." [She delivers a speech on the benefits of the Internet and talks about superimposing maps of Africa using computers to study the slave trade. This leads to philosophizing on the information age itself...
...Faust [wide-eyed]: "Well, depends on how you define a smarter society. We have more information, but do we succeed in turning that into knowledge and, as you say, wisdom? Those things are not necessarily always correlated...