Word: learns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sarah could learn from Anne D. Browning '00, captain of the Radcliffe heavyweight crew, who strolled along the banks before her race, the last of the afternoon...
...complaining that the questions I was asking about The Scarlet Letter were making your brains hurt," says David Mendelson to his honors English class. "That is the goal." He is trying to take them to the point where their heads throb, because that is the point at which they learn. "If the question is easy, I have failed." Maybe high school is supposed to hurt some. That is also why we remember what happens here forever--all the triumphs and all the scars, all the effort to tell which is which...
Look inside a high school, and you are looking in a mirror, under bright lights. How we treat our children, what they see and learn from us, tell us what is healthy and what is sick--and more about who we are than we may want to know. Dylan Klebold lives here, and so does Cassie Bernall, and they can't help showing us what's on their mind, because that's the nature of teenagers. So come in only if you want to learn. All they will give us is a glimpse, but even that may knock the wind...
...freshman, all because everyone is worried that someone might snap, it's fair to ask: Are high schools preparing kids for the big ugly world outside those doors--or handicapping them once they get there? High school was once useful as a controlled environment, where it was safe to learn to handle rejection, competition, cruelty, charisma. Now that we've discovered how unsafe a school can be, it may have become so controlled that some lessons will just have to be learned elsewhere...
...People choose concentrations because of career goals or desires to learn about a specific field, not because the concentration is convenient or easier than another," Acker says. "I think if you did that you would be wasting your experience here at Harvard, which we are all fortunate to have...