Word: learnedness
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In the time since, I’ve had more than a week to reflect on what I’ve actually learned in my four years at Harvard College. I must confess I’m more than a little disappointed.
Maybe, I thought, my disappointment was founded on a mistaken notion of what an ideal education should be. When leaving high school, feeling like you’ve learned a lot of math, science, and English is great because you’re going on to another phase of your...
I found that I could write 24 pages in under 24 hours and still do well. I learned that a lot of the education you get at college happens outside the classroom. And I learned how to deal with failure, even if most Harvard students don’t understand...
Even those golden children who sail through Harvard as they’ve sailed through high school fail, in a sense. They’ve failed to experience failure, and their education is impoverished as a result. I’ve learned, sometimes painfully, to accept that it�...
I went into these courses knowing that they would probably lower my grade point average and that I’d have to spend more time on them than on classes in my concentration. But because I learned not to go into these courses expecting perfection, they were all the...