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When one of my favorite teams is playing, you can usually find me screaming at the TV. Perhaps this is a function of parent indoctrination??my father taught me the J-E-T-S chant as soon as I was able to utter my first words—or perhaps it comes from living in London, where the fans at Tottenham’s White Hart Lane spend the entire 90 minutes of a match in unified song. Either way, I know what it means to root hard for your team...
...Harvard to nix the Reason and Faith requirement proposal because of qualms about appearing to be a parochial school, or an institution promoting only certain belief systems. The report specifically says that the classes under the requirement would not be prescriptive—these classes would be nothing like indoctrination??and would give students a wide range of religions to choose to study. The idea is not to turn all Harvard students into Protestants again, but rather to make students more aware of humanity’s universal tendency to develop faith systems. Harvard should not exclude...
...column by Jordana R. Lewis ’02 entitled “Indoctrinating, Not Educating” (Opinion, Nov. 15) accuses me of conducting “indoctrination?? and almost “propaganda” in Foreign Cultures 17: “Thought and Change in the Contemporary Middle East.” Allow me to respond to these serious and misleading charges...
...papers. I do not believe that it is wrong to bring such matters to the attention of our students who certainly have the critical faculties to assess what they are watching. The pretense that all this amounts to almost “propaganda” and “indoctrination?? is an insult to the intelligence of our students. It is also a slur on the dedicated work being carried out by 10 gifted teaching fellows...
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