Student essays on the purpose and structure of a Harvard education
By: edited by Emily Riehl and Danny Yagan
Publisher: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Education; Curricula; Research; Curriculum evaluation; Higher Education; Evaluation; General education; Harvard University; Harvard College (1780- )
Notes: At head of title: Harvard College
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Emily Riehl and Danny Yagan; title: Enter to grow in wisdom  -- Christopher Catizone; title: A classicist's defense of the humanities  -- Robert L. Cioffi; title: Of checkbooks and chatrooms: timely meditations for a changing school  -- Paul B. Davis; title: On a certain importance of human beings  -- Katherine Disalvo; title: Toward a student-centered Harvard: a progressive vision of undergraduate education  -- Ethan L. Gray; title: The significance of instructive dialogue in liberal arts education  -- Jahn Haddock; title: Look without and look within: general education in an age of globalization  -- Josh Patashnik; title: Harvard's mediocrity: teaching, advising, and the curricular review  -- Jeff Rakover; title: The importance of creative and critical thinking  -- Emily Riehl; title: Misunderstanding academia  -- Ryan Thorpe; title: Citizen leaders for the 21st century global community  -- winn W. Wasson; title: Down with the "Harvard Man": owning our education existentialy and pragmatically  -- Tom Wolf; title: Why a college at Harvard? From first principles to a manifest  -- Danny Yagan.; title: Appendix: student documents from curricular review committees.