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...nation about abuse or fear that the children will succeed and put parents out of a job? We cannot hold our children's wings all their lives and then expect them to know how to fly when we let them go. Kids need parents, but they also need the freedom to learn and grow. Let them experience the sting of failure and the joy of success. And trust them! Danica Conway, Longmont, Colo...
...engine. But American universities aren’t rusty. They are in a good shape and they will, almost certainly, continue to shine. The tremendous success of higher education in this country has lasted so long partly because of a mixture of charity, pride, and personal freedom, elements that must be preserved in order to maintain quality. The inseparable part of quality, however, is money...
...There are a lot of exciting and ambitious plans for Allston and we just completed buildings in North Yard. We have a lot of expenses facing us and I am not sure where the money [for eliminating tuition for all students] would come from.”PATH TO FREEDOM?With the implementation of HFAI, Larsen Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government Christopher N. Avery ’88 says that in a sense the College is moving toward a tuition-free model for the lowest income students. Whether the model should be extended...
...nation about abuse or fear that the children will succeed and put parents out of a job? We cannot hold our children's wings all their lives and then expect them to know how to fly when we let them go. Kids need parents, but they also need the freedom to learn and grow. Let them experience the sting of failure and the joy of success. And trust them! Danica Conway, LONGMONT, COLO., U.S. Poniewozik's article was a quick yet deeply gratifying read. In one page he managed to sum up the rationale and angst we "helicopter" parents have...
...much of what masquerades as academic freedom can scarcely claim to be the unsightly but necessary garb for those who search for truth. University campuses have been radically politicized, with progressive departments such as the committee on degrees in studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies implicitly aspiring to “raise consciousness” and produce the next cadre of leftist activists. Outside speakers—like President Ahmadinejad at Columbia, Mohammed Khatami at Harvard, and the plagiarizing former professor Ward Churchill at Hamilton College, although the last was ultimately cancelled—contribute nothing but the universities?...