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Every year, billions of dollars of federal funds are disbursed to fund scientific research. While some of the result is translated into new technologies or new medical treatments, most research yields knowledge for knowledge??s sake, and is filed away in academic journals...
...great literature, but it is finely drawn social commentary. Still, Gessen might do well to pay heed to Belinsky’s advice: “Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge??they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.” After all, however good Gessen’s ideas may be, they need to reach not just the minds, but the hearts of their audience to really make a difference.—Staff writer...
...many. Professors naturally prefer an audience to their presentation, whose questions can guide discussion and instruction. Even seeing the way students react to information can inform how much time a professor spends on particular topics in the future. Attendance allows for a general assurance that our lecturers’ knowledge??for which we have competed and pay a premium—is being passed on. Furthermore, one of the great benefits of a school like Harvard is the quality of the minds it gathers together in a community. Isolating students from each other and faculty serves to stifle...
...will streamline the education system and serve as an invaluable tool in correcting the inequality in academic performance. Students from low-income and minority backgrounds will be given the opportunity to catch up to their peers while also enjoying a direct monetary benefit from studying hard. Knowledge for knowledge??s sake is a powerful concept. This truth will be revealed, not desecrated, by the fruits that will be borne of these pecuniary rewards...
...touching base with what matters to the institution and to the president,” McLaughlin said.In her speech, Faust said making Harvard accessible to students of all backgrounds was a fundamental challenge facing the University, and she spoke of taking advantage of an increasingly global culture in which knowledge??a university’s stock in trade—is a universal currency.“Just as we live in a time of narrowing distances between fields and disciplines, so we inhabit an increasingly transnational world in which knowledge itself is the most powerful connector...