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...flip side of the coin from the act of evaluation, however, is the act of creation. Producing things of value is just as important as evaluating things that already exist. How do you make something that you think has value? How do you give an object worth, meaning, significance? Some people learn to create monetary value (of varying degrees of reality or imaginariness—like all those recent graduates blowing hot air into the ballooning moneybags of Wall Street in the earlier part of this decade), others create social value with nonprofit work, others create artistic value through films...
Harvard doesn’t try to teach us to be happy (see “What Makes Us Happy” in June’s “Atlantic”), but it does give students the tools to learn, grow, and articulate their values and then to craft projects and products they believe have value. Perhaps these values are occasionally skewed, but it is part of the process of teaching us not just how to know things, but how to think and how to create...
Well, there were all these ... there were a bunch of things said right after the election about ... that really ... Michel Martin on NPR is the one that stands out ... about people are talking about what Michelle Obama is going to have to give up in her identity and her independence and her paycheck and her life. And I remember thinking that, Well, it's quite a trade, given the kind of power you're going to ... to do the things that you care about that you're going to be doing...
There was a lot about that you were going to have to give up so much that you had built all through your life, the things you cared about. Did that ... You know how I looked at ... those conversations had nothing to do with me. Those conversations had to do with how oftentimes, I think, women feel ... which are legitimate. A lot of times women feel like they give up so much in comparison to their partner or in life for whatever...
...from Chicago's South Side to the East Wing, but from the caricatured Angry Black Woman of last spring to her exalted status as a New American Icon, as if her arrival will magically reverse eight years of anti-American spitballing, elevate the black middle class, promote family values, give voice to the voiceless and inspire us all to live healthier, more generous lives...