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Howard E. Gardner '65, who works at the School of Education, says he stayed at Harvard because he did not want to go home...
...came from an educationally-deprived area in Pennsylvania--Scranton--the coal-mining region," Gardner says. "My parents were uneducated...college was a total revelation...It was an intoxicating experience [that made it] impossible to go back...
...Gardner bemoans the lack of institutional loyalty. "It's important for some people to stay to maintain an institutional memory or identity," he says. "Harvard represents an institution which has endured and which more-or-less works. [Up to about 30 years ago,] people rarely left their institution. Now there are no institutional loyalties, and Harvard is a victim of this...
...Gardner says many academic and cultural trends have made the University a more diffuse place...
...Quixote, shelved in the same spot where Sir Thomas Bodley, the founder, placed it in 1605. "It gave me a sense of how high I loomed in the large scale of scholarship, and that's good for a young graduate student." He became a protege of Dame Helen Gardner, the eminent Donne scholar, who also had a keen sense of scale. "The point of wide reading is absorption, not citation," was her comment on one showy Healy effort. "I've used that line many times since," he says, "and I can't say I've always attributed...