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Nick, Kieran and Anthony started playing guitar together the night they moved into their Mower triple four years ago. Kieran had grown up playing classical piano, but Nick taught him how to play the guitar...
Nick later taught both Aaron and Sam how to play the guitar, and the roommates recently bought Sam a guitar for his birthday. They pitched in to buy Nick a guitar, too, a beautiful green “dream guitar” he’d had his eye on for years. They presented it to him at a surprise 21st birthday party in a New York club...
...activity is academic work for a small class with a great professor, Chopra says it is often outside of the classroom that students feel most fulfilled. “This sort of created this dynamic where in many ways extracurriculars are a good threat to academics. It sort of taught Harvard we need to reinvent ourselves if we want a good extracurricular and a good academic scene,” says Chopra...
...using broad language in calling these experiences ‘educational’ but it’s a fact that, even for many of our academic stars, the hours spent being theatre techies made dramatic literature part of their lives, and the time spent in the Veritones taught more about teamwork, and contract negotiations, than any course could have done,” Lewis wrote to Knowles. “We need to respond to [students’] developmental needs and the full range of their interests and talents, not just academic ones...
Light and others say students are taught leadership and teamwork skills in their extracurricular activities—qualities that are often hard to exercise in a classroom setting...