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After five years at my dining room table, I enrolled at a formal high school. Certainly, I arrived deficient in some areas of knowledge, just as I was over-familiar with others, but I soon learned that my years of homeschooling, loosely structured and largely self-directed study had taught me early on the most important lesson of my academic career: that even the most skilled teacher is nothing without an able learner, and, moreover, that actively learning is miles away from passively "being taught...
...profession, to make lasting friendships, or simply to indulge a whim, extracurricular pursuits are an escape from academics, a sphere free from the demands of professors and the pressures of a transcript grade, a sphere in which one can learn self-reliance and life skills that cannot be taught in the ivory tower...
...link between the past and present of the Danilovsky Monastery,” Father Roman, the bell ringer at the monastery, said through a translator. “They were witnesses to many historical events.” Lowell organized multiple events to greet the Russians. Father Roman taught a master class along with two bell ringers for the Kremlin, Igor Konovalov and Konstantin Michourovski, on Tuesday, and another will be offered at 6 p.m. tonight. Konovalov spoke about Russian bell ringing yesterday, and Michourovski will host a class on Friday afternoon. The Vera Foundry, which is making Lowell?...
According to the finalized General Education Report, the proper theory of the purpose of liberal arts is the equivalent of making students better American citizens by reading the newspapers. The Task Force has given us a brand new idea of how liberal arts should be taught, the selection of which only shows us that apparently, all the good ideas are already taken...
...system developed and introduced in 1979. Nothing in the new General Education proposal convinces me that within thirty years another revamping won’t be needed. Instead the College needs to foster a return to liberal arts proper—a place where knowledge is not taught to develop abstract modes of inquiry or help one vote and balance a checkbook...