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...examine ourselves and our own society? In my experience, as a student abroad and a government analyst, the answer is yes. In the midst of his diatribe against international and interdisciplinary studies, Adomanis manages to advise students to “take a course in ancient Greece, read Plato, or learn a foreign language.” Given Adomanis’ concern with international competitiveness, one wonders why he would so shackle those language students by gutting study abroad. I remember an Arabic course taught by Harvard’s William Granara as one of the best I ever took...
...Brooks make a major mistake in one of his recent columns, a generally solid piece giving advice and guidance to college students present and future. The New York Times’ conservative made a mistake not in arguing that students should take a course in ancient Greece, read Plato, or learn a foreign language. These are suggestions so obviously beneficial as to be immune from all but the most unhinged rants. Where Brooks stumbled is somewhere a large chunk of academia also seems to be stumbling: study abroad. The idea of “study abroad” is similar...
Every generation of adults sees new technology--and the social changes it stirs--as a threat to the rightful order of things: Plato warned (correctly) that reading would be the downfall of oral tradition and memory. And every generation of teenagers embraces the freedoms and possibilities wrought by technology in ways that shock the elders: just think about what the automobile did for dating...
...contrary. Once an instructor at Columbia, whose equivalent of the Core still consists of a general education in “Great Books,” Russell specialized in teaching the non-Western components of the curriculum. He has imported this emphasis into his Harvard seminars; alongside Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, and the Bible are added the Bhagavad Gita, the Lotus Sutra, and a number of sources on Zoroastrianism.Sitting in on the course and talking with a number of enrollees, one quickly gets the impression that this is an offering which consumes a large amount of Russell?...
...their drunken mess on the sidewalk. But even these trivialities draw out the old complaints about the encroaching student population.So, forgive me for thinking that Cambridge-Harvard relations aren’t really a problem. Yes, we strut around like we own the place, with our heavy volumes of Plato and Voltaire bursting out our big H-branded bags; we launch ourselves recklessly across the streets to the dismay of cab-drivers; we don’t necessarily “care” about the town itself. But the University enjoys a symbiotic relationship with Cambridge, forming an academic...