June 11, 2006

Essay: Down with the "Harvard Man": Owning our Education Existentially and Pragmatically

Published in Student Essays: On the Purpose and Structure of a Harvard Education (Cambridge: Fellows of Harvard College, 2005) (Full PDFs)

"The College should... encourage individual perspectives, ideas that have real lasting power specifically because they are one's own, not because they are Harvard's. Life is long and complicated, and we will all have to change to meet its challenges. Finished products will get left behind. Harvard's greatest gift to the future will be students capable of tackling the world on their own unique terms."
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