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...order to devote enough time to their research, minority professors find they have to say `no' to student requests for counseling. But many say that turning students away is not the solution. "It's a very painful thing to do because you do feel that you're here to impart knowledge to students and interact with them," Harvard's Edley says...
Harvard's Core, consequently, seeks to impart an education that will last a lifetime. By teaching approaches to knowledge, it tries to provide us with the techniques and tools needed to approach various disciplines. It allows us to reeducate ourselves as disciplines change over the years and thus avoid Henry Adam's predicament. Unfortunately, the Core doesn't work that way. It may be a great idea on paper, but it doesn't translate into reality...
...speech at Harvard in October, Bennett outlined a simplistic and dangerous vision of higher education in which the job of universities was to impart narrow concepts of Western morality to their students. With his Dallas speech, he has gone a step further: he would also like to see college administrators actively enforce those values and seek to regulate the personal lives of their students...
...taking on such a ready-made role of husband, father, breadwinner, and how I myself in comparison was really a secret monster of egotism. Not so secret, either -- not from him." But such knowledge, in these stories, brings gains as well / as losses, the wisdom that only experience can impart. One character realizes: "Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later." This book is full of such compassion, and such moments...
...distinct reputation for close attention to detail. He does so by lavishing time and care on his image- making advertisements, which spread the message of his design principles. As part of that studied approach, Lauren prefers lavish magazine spreads to television commercials, which he views as too fleeting to impart his message. "Ralph has some of the best advertising in the business because it sets a mood, it evokes a life-style," says an ad director for a major fashion magazine...