Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.
Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.
Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.
Elite private-school educations leave students unprepared for a standardized test with which their public school counterparts are innately familiar.
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.
Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.
Learning never exhausts the mind.