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...strength, but schools have become less daring in the back-to-basics climate of NCLB. Kids also must learn to think across disciplines, since that's where most new breakthroughs are made. It's interdisciplinary combinations--design and technology, mathematics and art--"that produce YouTube and Google," says Thomas Friedman, the best-selling author of The World Is Flat...
...have become less daring in the back-to-basics climate of No Child Left Behind. Kids also must learn to think across disciplines, since that's where most new breakthroughs are made. It's interdisciplinary combinations-design and technology, mathematics and art-"that produce YouTube and Google," says Thomas Friedman, the best-selling author of The World Is Flat...
...school, according to Keller’s book). Meanwhile, wartime vets returning to finish their degrees were largely unbothered by the change in the College’s atmosphere. “It was quite luxurious after being in a barracks for three years,” says Harold Friedman ’46 of his Leverett housing.For returning soldiers like Friedman, who was a waiter in Leverett before the war, a return to the academy marked a welcome transition. He remembers walking to and from class after his postwar return and noticing the inscription on Dexter gate, which tells...
Even for the most resilient survivors, however, time can't heal all wounds. "Time only passes," says Russell Friedman, a co-author of The Grief Recovery Handbook. "It's action that provides the opportunity for change." Limerick found hers through exercise. Instead of crying during her nightly Marty Robbins sessions, she began exercising to the music. "I was totally out of shape, and I started doing jumping jacks to the mournful song," she recalls. "It felt really good." Limerick continued to lean on her friends but found different ways to be with them. One took her shopping...
When I learned he had died, I was despondent, but I also realized you cannot kill Friedman's exaltation of human liberty--not with a gun, not with a tank, not with terrorism--not even with heart disease. His ideas and faith in the human spirit are as implanted in civilization as those of any benevolent economist and social revolutionary since his idol Adam Smith, whom he so worthily followed...