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...more potential conversations during the seven-minute interchange between courses. At this rate, if we assume a mere twelve potential conversational hours per day, pod-heads miss out on nearly 303 exchanges each day. Does this make those with unconstrained ears 303 times more social? You do the math...
It’s just one way that Narang balances his life. The Phi Beta Kappa senior runs cross country and track, does research for a blind graduate student, is writing a thesis linking international relations to applied math and is fielding multiple job offers in finance and consulting in New York City...
...applied math and economics concentrator, Xu described the United States educational system as very different from the system in New Zealand. He said Harvard has been “quite a good experience in the sense that you get to see another way of looking at education...
...question of the bulk spending of money—according to the OECD study, America outspends the Czechs by three to one, yet the Czechs still beat the U.S. by 33 points in math—but it couldn’t hurt. The benefits of being a math teacher, of course, could not possibly compare with the benefits of the numerous other options open to those with the necessary mathematical knowledge. Ironically, these options are made possible only by the incredible flourishing of the sectors requiring the very math skills that our students seem to lack...
...President Bush has never acted as though he were concerned by inequality within America, his administration’s under-funded and ill-wrought educational policy is doing more for the redistribution of global wealth than the pinkest of bleeding-heart liberals ever could. Kids who get Cs in math might still be president, but in a global marketplace they can’t be too much else. However, if our children have to be poor, our hearts are warmed by the fact that they will be poor so that formerly struggling regions might be prosperous. Pass the standardized tests...