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E-PrinceIt wasn’t until college that I started to believe in magic. Like most of the things my parents taught me as a child, I lost faith early, about the time that my Jewish friend told me that Santa Claus ...(back to the article)
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I like that you guys corrected the fact that you misspelled Santa Claus in the print version =)
"There is no single way to engage and re-envision the basic precepts of academia, and I leave it to people much smarter than me to figure out what can make the subject matter more accessible for their students. In the mean time, I’ll keep asking: Would it be so wrong if Princeton taught us how to believe in the impossible, irrational and magical?"
Damn right. In fact, you should have left the writing of an article (obviously, they would not have written this article) to someone smarter than yourself too. A university that teaches irrationality; need I even say more?
Collins, please stop writing.
your comment makes no sense.
Nice defense Michael. I know you can't figure it out.
This was the most cliched op-ed I've seen in the Prince all semester, and most of them were about grade deflation and eating clubs. "Stop the conformity! Express yourself!"
Please. This has been the standard in academia for a very long time - and in the American public schools, come to think of it. (As if someone from a private school would know. This is almost as bad as Carroll talking to us about academic reform even though he was at a Jesuit prep school.)
Collins is the one who needs to break out of the box.
I don't think you need any of the stuff you say to have understanding, if you studied science a bit more you'd realize the stuff that happens in reality, in the nucleus of cells or center of neutron stars that rotate 1000s of times faster than the earth, it is all more amazing than what anyone can ever imagine or philosophize about. And it's probably as close to absolute truth as you can get.
College kids today don't know that peyote buttons are chewed, not smoked? Probably been sniffing too much Ecstatsy.
The love of learning is what you are to take away from college. No one can suppress that.