Today’s author is Sarah Rous, DTF for the Classics Department. On March 5–6 the Department of the Classics was pleased to welcome Jeff Beneker, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as our visiting “distinguished teacher” and facilitator of a series of workshops and colloquia collectively dubbed the Distinguished Teaching Series. Our department … Continue reading »
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Model Playground: Pedagogy & Architecture at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Joana Pimenta, Film and Visual Studies PhD and Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Teaching Fellow, talks to the Bok Center about the role of education in Brute, an exhibition at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (CCVA) on view through April 7, 2013. Curated by VES professors Katarina Burin and Amie Siegel, Brute marks the … Continue reading »
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“To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is educated.” – Edith Hamilton Continue reading »
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle Continue reading »
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“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” – Oscar Wilde Continue reading »
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“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time — for we are bound by that — but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.” – T.S. Eliot Continue reading »
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“A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” – Henry B Adams Continue reading »
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“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Continue reading »
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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.” – Walter Cronkite Continue reading »
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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Continue reading »
