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...attitudinal shift among employers must go hand in hand with changed student focus. Undergraduates should shift their approach toward other ways to learn skills, such as working for non-profits or volunteering. Additionally, meaningful work can be found in jobs that don’t offer fantastic compensation above minimum wage or the prestige of an internship...
...people interviewed for this article—Harvard administrators, the undergraduates who mentor children at the Portal, and parents who bring their children to learn in the one-story building—all echoed the same sentiment: The Education Portal is free from the tensions between the University and the community...
...rejection. With the death of my father and a big publishing deal falling apart simultaneously at the last minute, that's when it really peaked. I was faced with a choice: I was going to let this take me down, or I was going to learn to base my happiness on something that was within my control. I'd been working with this philosophy for several years before my husband had his own crisis...
...principle, Fryer agrees. "Kids should learn for the love of learning," he says. "But they're not. So what shall we do?" Most teenagers do not look at their math homework the way toddlers look at a blank piece of paper. It would be wonderful if they did. Maybe one day we will all approach our jobs that way. But until then, most adults work primarily for money, and in a curious way, we seem to be holding kids to a higher standard than we hold ourselves...
...currently construed. Even if we could solve the laundry list of perplexities we confront - trade, currency, Tibet, Taiwan - the main problem would linger. So only a solution that functions at the strategic level offers any hope of a durable arrangement. (See five things the U.S. can learn from China...