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- Graduates
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.
- Minority
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you start worrying about a national football championship, then you begin to worry about getting the quality of athlete, and the numbers needed, to win a national championship. And that worry leads to pressure to compromise academic standards to admit those athletes.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most high governmental officials who speak of education policy seem to conceive of education in this light - as a way to ensure economic competitiveness and continued economic growth. I strongly disagree with this approach.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The college that takes students with modest entering abilities and improves their abilities substantially contributes more than the school that takes very bright students and helps them develop only modestly.
- Graduates
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.
- Professors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.
- Each Year
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.
- Foreign Languages
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.
- Falter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.
- Freshmen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.
- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment.
- Close Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.
- Critical Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.
- Embrace
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- Nov 07, 2020
As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.
- Graduates
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as the economy evolves and labor-market needs change.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I do the need for diversity, because I know from long experience that test scores, though useful, are a very limited measure of things that matter in choosing students.
- Educating
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry. Even this capacity may erode over time if it does not relate to experiences and problems that recur in the student's later life.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's very important to emphasize that there are many, many different educational institutions in what we call higher education, and they educate an enormous diversity of students. I think all of those institutions have to define particular roles for themselves; they can't do everything at once.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020