Promises and challenges of higher education
In her Presidential Announcement Remarks, new Harvard president Drew Faust expresses valuable perspectives on higher education:
For me, today is about affirming the idea, and the ideals, of a university, of its transformative purposes of teaching, learning, and research.American higher education is hailed as the best in the world, and attacked as falling short.
Americans sacrifice and struggle to get their children into college or university, yet mock those same institutions as self indulgent, hidebound, badly managed. American universities were throughout the 20th century the sites of the nation’s most significant scientific enterprise - as well as critical engines of innovation and economic growth.
Yet we find ourselves wondering in 2007 whether we - at Harvard or at any other university - have the resources, the organizational capacity, the relentlessness, and the leadership to generate continuing excellence and innovation in the sciences and across the spectrum of knowledge.”
But making high school and college really work - enhancing students’ growth as a person, and helping them realize their talents - takes commitment on the part of both teachers [and administrators], and students.
Related post: Does school support your creative growth?
Related post [on steve-olson.com]: How the Public School System Crushes Souls
Related article of mine: Getting out of school alive
related book: Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting our Brightest Young Minds - by Jan & Bob Davidson
More info & other resources on the page nurturing talent: teen/young adult
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