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Crow and Dabars don’t hold back in tearing down what they call the “Harvardization” of universities, where schools are responding to the higher education crisis by decreasing their acceptance rates and increasing their price tags, instead of trying to develop a better product that’s designed for the scale and type of demand we’re seeing today.
Nadia Asparouhova • The New American University
Chaque communauté est exposée à deux dangers opposés : la sclérose, par trop de discipline et de respect pour la tradition, d’une part ; d’autre part, la dissolution ou la soumission à des conquêtes étrangères dues à la croissance d’un individualisme et d’une indépendance personnelle qui rend la coopération impossible.
Bertrand Russell • Histoire de la philosophie occidentale: En relation avec les événements politiques et sociaux de l'Antiquité jusqu'à nos jours (Le Goût des idées t. 19) (French Edition)
ROBERT F. SMITH Founder and CEO, Vista Equity Partners; Philanthropist
David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
The system manufactures students who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it.
William Deresiewicz • Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Today, there’s the exclusion of conservatives from academic life. Then there’s the exclusion of working-class voices from mainstream media. Our profession didn’t used to be all coastal yuppies, but now it mostly is. Then there’s the marginalization of those with radical critiques — from say, the Marxist left and the theological right.
David Brooks • Opinion | The Future of Nonconformity (Published 2020)
is to diminish the number of lectures by (high-priced) professors while employing technology to allow more problem solving and active learning through the use of collaborating groups with graduate student tutors on hand to help when students get stuck.
Derek Bok • Higher Education in America
Daniel Cohn-Benclit.
Jonathan Rosenbaum • Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition
According to Putnam, the more we prioritize our private bubbles over public life, the more we disconnect from our local surroundings. This has weakened American democracy. Fewer people are engaged in politics, and those who do are often at the political poles. With less social capital, our neighborhoods are connected by fewer informal, reciprocal t... See more