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...learned that no matter how crackpot or distant a goal may seem, taking the first step toward realizing it always feels right. At Harvard, I’ve often found that many things that may seem like poor choices or wastes of time on a résumé—leaving for a semester to study abroad, starting to play guitar, taking computer programming, not participating in e-recruiting—were unquestionably the right choices for me and have actually helped make me the person who I want to be. I came into Harvard not used...
...realization that we are not the culmination of history but rather a midpoint in the institution’s grand goal of apparently purchasing all the land in Massachusetts is what makes the idea of Harvard as Harvard unsettling. It begs us to question what our use or purpose is because, in the face of 5,000 years, earning power or money here and now seems rather pointless...
...institution that wheels and deals in money and power, it is still in its heart an institution of knowledge. Knowledge that passed in whispers and parchment from generation to generation—incomplete only where it was neglected long enough for everyone who knew it to die off. The goal of a liberal arts education isn’t to get a sweet job from e-recruiting, but rather to teach each generation to be a bridge that passes the insights of humanity onto the next...
...goal of your elite education has not been, as Plato famously conceived it, to ascend above the unilluminated ignorance of the cave. Instead, afraid to cause offense by privileging one view over others, Harvard has aspired simply to make us feel more comfortable in our darkness...
...goal of a Harvard education should be something truly noble: not only to make men wiser, but to make them freer as well. Yet on almost all accounts, she has failed to live up to this charge. In advocating a life attentive only to the standards or values that the individual arbitrarily has chosen himself, fair Harvard—while believing that she is broadening her students’ minds—rather subjects them to the vilest and most dehumanizing slavery...