Word: taught
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said, that ‘the only way to have a friend is to be one.’” The values of human equality and dignity that bind us to the rest of the world cannot be taught or presented in neat packages but must be learned individually from experience, curiosity, and struggle. Sure, that neo-hippie experiment of a high school I attended has gotten to my head, but I like this idea of global citizenship more than the stiff formulations of corporate globalization (even if I do have...
...discipline the College has never quite known how to deal with. Over the last century, engineering has been taught under five different administrative organizations at Harvard. During this time, the discipline has always been an unsettling force within undergraduate education. Were it a colony, it would have the liveliest nationalist movement, having attempted “secession” twice, at its inception and in 1919. Today, it is content to be a privileged province...
...create a company based on the same business model.“One of the big problems with ALS is that there are not a lot of novel treatment ideas coming from new places,” said Boaz.With the help of Daniel J. Isenberg, a senior lecturer who taught Kremer in his entrepreneurial course, Boaz and Kremer founded Prize4life, a nonprofit organization that will provide $10 million worth of rewards to ALS researchers.Boaz and Kremer will officially launch the website prize4life.org and the contest on Friday.To better understand the pharmaceutical market, Kremer had first organized a symposium of major...
...must distinguish,” reads the Red Book, “between liberalism in education and education in liberalism.” Conant favored the second; before they could fully exercise their freedom, he reasoned, students needed to be taught how to be free...
...steadfast support of the notion that the function of a university is to be a marketplace of ideas, where any viewpoint, no matter how unpopular and even dangerous it may seem, is entitled to be heard with respect. We believed, as did the men and women who taught at Harvard, that the antidote for hateful ideas was the expression of other ideas. We thought that was the right way to deal with the ideological crises of our time. We called ourselves Liberals.Today, it is no longer possible to regard Harvard as a free and open marketplace of ideas...