On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> I asked each of my seminars whether they had so far encountered a teacher they genuinely appreciated. If so, what aspects did they
> most admire? Invariably they said good teachers made them "feel comfortable". To sense the sterility one had only to listen: "shopping
> period" was the name of the week they selected their classes...
>
> In January 2008, a "group of Harvard alumni from the Vietnam War era" sent an open letter to the university's president. "We are
> concerned by what we see to be the widespread apathy and political indifference of the student body at Harvard College today," said the
> letter (reported in Times Higher Education on 4 January 2008), which defined the problem as "self-examination and broad intellectual
> growth versus the careerist, vocational orientation"...
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."