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...frequent progress checks in the current system might well argue that the changes could result in higher grades for students who cut corners and do not put in the effort of their peers. But so what? Challenging bright students to produce important work—not penalizing their lazier peers??should be the ultimate goal of a Harvard education. It is more important to nurture those students who show flashes of individual insight than to engineer a system where talent is subordinated to graft...
...would be convenient to blame the constant rush to achieve—either through gaining higher grades or accumulating superior extracurricular positions to one’s peers??on the atmosphere at Harvard. Yet the sad truth—or, perhaps, the cheery truth—is that pressure here is entirely self-inflicted. It is perfectly possible to coast through, working very little and obtaining what, in pre-gender equality days, used to be called Gentleman’s Cs. Yet, to hear students stress and strain over pointless problem sets and redundant response papers, one would...
Scholars want to carry out their work in an environment where they will be surrounded by the best and brightest of their peers??as interaction and engagement with colleagues is seen as enhancing the quality of their own work...
...Blair and New Labour to pack the Chamber with their supporters. There is also a question as to how accurately the new picks will accurately reflect England’s population: when the government set to the task of naming 15 “people’s peers?? they sure looked to be inclusive—selecting seven people who had already been knighted and varied corporate executives...
...Ellison also wants to speed graduate students up. Students doing research projects—especially those in the humanities—need to be engaged more quickly, he said. Their degrees take one to two years longer than their peers?? at other schools...