Word: grayness
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...curricular review (“Student Curricular Review Essays Stack Up Favorably to Profs,” 10/7/05). While I think Mr. Seton did an admirable job summarizing most works, he read my work too narrowly thus distorting my argument. He wrote, “I believe Gray and Wolf make the error of assuming that (the) only way to create self-directed graduates is to allow students to direct their own studies.” This misses the ENTIRETY of my argument. I do not believe that students should be allowed free reign to direct their studies. I believe...
...this summer I found a surprising solution: The Cartoon Network show “Family Guy.” The show is seldom considered educational and appropriate for children, but after two months of controlled viewing, it actually appears to be cultivating my brother’s gray matter without sacrificing one ounce of his innocence. Well, maybe one ounce, but certainly not two. For starters, it stimulates him in ways his favorite sitcoms don’t. While the Kool-Aid Man’s explosive cameo and other classic surprises prove highly accessible, many of the quips from...
...schools whose walls had collapsed at the first dreadful stirrings of the earthquake, trapping over a hundred kids inside. Their mangled bodies would slowly emerge, cradled in the arms of the rescue workers. The girls had worn green blouses, probably ironed that morning by their mothers; the boys wore gray. That night, three days after the temblor, the French managed to pull a five-year-old from the rubble. It appeared that the boy, Nawfiz Shah, suffered only mild injuries on his face and hands. But when I visited him the following day, living in a tent with his mother...
Several essays critically question the legitimacy of any required course, no matter its quality. Ethan L. Gray ’05-‘06 argues that well-meaning attempts to create “well-rounded” students can prevent them from developing “a profoundly important value: passion.” “Imposing” a curriculum, as he argues, only serves to turn students off to learning. Thomas Wolf ’05 worries about the University’s desire to create students of a specific “mold?...
...believe Gray and Wolf make the error of assuming that only way to create self-directed graduates is to allow students to direct their own studies. As Christopher Catizone ’06 poignantly argues: “We are bombarded with information about practicing safe sex, finding late night counseling help, securing the best summer internship. But when it comes to learning, arguably the business of Harvard, we are handed a course catalog and encouraged to find our own way. But we are disappointed, for we cannot come to wisdom...