Word: teach
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...None of this means that I’ve given up on difficult endeavors. Within a week of the publication of this article, I’ll drive to Louisiana to join Teach for America as a high school English teacher in the New Orleans public school system. I am certain that my job will pose an almost infinite number of challenges and require a fair amount of determination. But now that I’ve discarded perseverance as an ideology—sticking it out for the sake of sticking it out—I can see the deeper...
...attributes that form our core values at Harvard—perseverance, hard work, determination—are valuable only as means to an end, not as ends in themselves. And while I’m glad that Harvard has enabled me to apply these towards worthy causes, like Teach for America, or even in support of more personal projects, like my thesis, they are tools and nothing more. They are not a valid ideology; they are not a measure of success...
...This move may leave some historians who would like to teach classes that do not directly cite current day trends out in the cold...
...surprise, something did. Some of us can forge ahead on instinct or gumption, while some of us—Rupert and I included—need a kickstart in the right direction to get going. When I really thought about doing Teach For America (TFA), I began to wonder how I could do anything else. After a life of excellent education, of incredibly loving and supportive family members, of the best friends anyone could ask for, after four years of Harvard—with its ancient historical duty to its country and its world to send its graduates into service...
...Some students are advised by senior faculty, others by graduate students. Some concentrations teach the senior tutorial as a course with regular meeting times and loose assignments; others leave students to shape their work more autonomously. In some concentrations, advisers grade the thesis; in others, theses are read “blind” by professors, lecturers, or graduate students less familiar with the thesis writer’s work and topic...