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Travis R. Kavulla ’06 writes in Sept. 30 issue of The Crimson that Harvard’s liberal education system is valuable and worth saving, arguing that “Harvard has never taken pride, as MIT has, in producing students who are essentially academic drones with blinders attached, divorced from all fields of study but their own” (Column, “The Hollowed Core?...
...wonder whether Kavulla has ever met an MIT student; anyone who has would find his remark laughable...
Kavulla’s suggestion is also particularly ridiculous when one considers that Institute alumni have reached the top of a huge variety of fields. While MIT is justly proud of its fifteen sons and daughters who are now Nobel Laureates, I doubt even Kavulla himself would say that William R. Hewlett MIT SM ’36 (of Hewlett Packard Co.), Benjamin Netanyahu, MIT Class of 1975 (former Israeli Prime Minister), I.M. Pei, MIT Class of 1940 (architect of Boston’s John Hancock Tower among other things), and Tom and Ray Magliozzi, of MIT Classes...
...would suggest to Kavulla that he visit Harvard’s own president, Lawrence H. Summers, MIT Class of 1975, and ask him whether he considers himself an “academic drone...
Travis R. Kavulla ’06 writes in The Crimson of Sept. 30 that the Core is badly dumbed down and fails to serve its stated intent to teach “approaches” to knowledge (Column, "The Hollowed Core"). But Kavulla ignores successful aspects of the Core in his zeal to discredit...