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...sexuality class at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, the home of sex pioneer Alfred Kinsey's institute, displays Michelangelo's David and Playboy covers in her class but "no X-rated movies," she says. "Those are not a good way to explain porn," which she believes is best taught with the same dispassion with which one would teach a course on statistics...
...Lush has been doing that all her life. Her late father John, an engineer and inventor, taught her to make her own paints at age four. Her mother Ellie passed on the domestic skills she'd learned as a child in the 1940s. "We had to find a way of doing things with next to nothing," she says. "Clean, do plumbing - you name it." Lush recalls how, "when I was really little, Mum showed me how you could use rotten (spoiled) milk to get ink out of clothes. I thought it was magic...
...once harbored dreams of a career in public health, that I am not a complete moron. But while in high school a failed exam would have sent me into a tailspin of shame and despair, four years of good training in self-righteousness and entitlement at Harvard have taught me instead to reach for a beer and a pen in indignation...
...eyed first-years are mailed the blandly-titled booklet “Conversations with Faculty and Staff: Readings for Freshman,” that includes essays by Emerson, Ellison, and Jane Adams. Harvard thus seems to be the ivy-clad place where students are not simply educated, but are taught to view the ethical implications and obligations of their education. You know, the weighty stuff.Upon arriving, freshmen are treated to a brief lecture and hour-long discussion on the essays, which are then quickly tossed aside in favor of more alluring texts like CUE guides, course catalogs, and ever-handy...
...wasn’t all business, though, according to English teacher Richard Weems, who taught Viswanathan world literature during her junior year. Weems told FM that Viswanathan always seemed comfortable in the humanities, and that her creative efforts were always well-received. The summer before her senior year, Weems said, he helped her prepare her application for a creative writing class at the super-competitive Governor’s School summer program in New Jersey. Even though she didn’t get in, she still won more awards for poetry and prose than any of her classmates...