Word: modern
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What really concerns me is not the educational philosophy of Resnick's editorial but its general attitude. When one has the chance to spend four years largely isolated from the demands of the modern economy, to study and to live with a few thousand other young students, it seems remarkably selfish to whine about "customer service." This is not to say that students should be cowed into gratitude and never ask anything from Harvard. One would hope, however, that when they do demand something, it might be for people other than themselves...
Resnick does not seem to understand that the cornerstones of the modern university, tenure for professors and financial aid for students, are crucial precisely because of how they counteract the imperatives of the market. Somehow, perhaps from the fact that Harvard often looks like a breeding ground for investment bankers, Resnick has concluded that Harvard is a "business" and that he is a "consumer." Nothing could be more wrong. In short, a university's purpose is to educate students, not to "serve consumers...
What really concerns me is not the educational philosophy of Resnick's editorial but its general attitude. When one has the chance to spend four years largely isolated from the demands of the modern economy, to study and to live with a few thousand other young students, it seems remarkably selfish to whine about "customer service." This is not to say that students should be cowed into gratitude and never ask anything from Harvard. One would hope, however, that when they do demand something, it might be for people other than themselves...
...staring at the plain white walls of my new home, I miss the overwhelming, childish wash of color, remembering how my voice echoed off pinkness in that room. There is something institutional about these walls. Bigger and lighter and emptier and colorless, this house, in spite of its more modern subtleties. It's a house whose rooms have not yet taken in their owners. A young house. The hedges in the front look like weeds. I never realized before how much I loved the wealth of trees around my house. Here, the trees are saplings, providing no shade from...
...staring at the plain white walls of my new home, I miss the overwhelming, childish wash of color, remembering how my voice echoed off pinkness in that room. There is something institutional about these walls. Bigger and lighter and emptier and colorless, this house, in spite of its more modern subtleties. It's a house whose rooms have not yet taken in their owners. A young house. The hedges in the front look like weeds. I never realized before how much I loved the wealth of trees around my house. Here, the trees are saplings, providing no shade from...