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...think ‘Veritas’ is just a motto. Many don’t pursue the truth: they just pursue their own advancement,” Sulak says, adding that “the hidden syllabus here is that you must be successful, you must be great...
...Sulak is also quick to point out Harvard’s positive aspects. Among the most memorable people that he says he has met at Harvard is Christopher Green, a lecturer on religion and dean of students at the Division of Continuing Education. Green teaches socially engaged Buddhism to a “growing minority” of “idealistic students,” Sulak says...
...Sulak has made quite an impact himself, over the course of his life...
Born in 1932 in Siam—his preferred name for his homeland—Sulak graduated from the University of Wales. Upon returning home, he founded the Social Science Review as part of his own attempt to understand the issues facing his country and its poor. The publication became Thailand’s leading intellectual journal in the 1960s and 1970s...
Since then, Sulak has been an outspoken social critic—and not just of his own homeland, though his voice becomes energetic and urgent as he talks about what he thinks must be changed about his native country...