Word: neglect
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...those of us who obsess over the perfect school and the perfect camp, this is a simple reminder of the immense power of a child's love, which can last through terrible neglect. So Nuala, pull up a beach chair; you too, Julia. (Bridget? Let's do lunch sometime. How's never? Never's good...
...events of the last year have highlighted a Harvard now apparently willing--after more than two decades of benign neglect--to recognize that women comprise just under half of its undergraduate population...
...longer than a short four student years)--are vastly greater and more complex than a description of "silly squabbling," of petty sibling bickering, would make them seem. These stakes trace directly back to Harvard's diehard historic image as America's premier gentlemen's club; to Harvard's increasing neglect of undergraduate life and instruction as its professional graduate schools have become even more gargantuan pots and magnets for both private and governmental funding and attention; and above all to Harvard's special connection not to liberal arts education, but to prestige, power and money...
...more importantly so what if society is not operating at maximum efficiency if people are happier? Do not neglect the significant benefits or treating people with more respect. Further all rose poor souls who walked away from an interest or opportunity because they felt personally spurned might come back for second try, perhaps finding their true niche and making an otherwise unfulfilled contribution to the social good...
There is a problem, but affirmative action is not the solution. Take the analogy of growing plants. If one is put in good soil and given water and sunlight, it will grow tall and flower. Put that same plant in bad soil, neglect it of water or leave it in the shade, and the plant will not grow properly. If, seeing this malnourished plant, you pull on it to make it taller, could you then say it is a good flower? No. The solution is to give the flower what it needs from the start. Early education programs, Head Start...