14/09/09 05:21:52.12 zeyndQq+0
The Trouble With Harvard
The Ivy League is broken and only standardized tests can fix it
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要旨
・ボランティアや課外活動のせいで学業が疎かになっている
・面接で選んだ学生よりも学力試験で選抜した学生のほうが遥かに優秀であり、将来性がある
2:大学への名無しさん
14/09/09 05:41:46.76 zeyndQq+0
一部抜粋
Knowing how our students are selected, I should not have been surprised when I discovered how they treat their educational
windfall once they get here. A few weeks into every semester, I face a lecture hall that is half-empty, despite the fact
that I am repeatedly voted a Harvard Yearbook Favorite Professor, that the lectures are not video-recorded, and that they
are the only source of certain material that will be on the exam. I don’t take it personally; it’s common knowledge that
Harvard students stay away from lectures in droves, burning a fifty-dollar bill from their parents’ wallets every time
they do. Obviously they’re not slackers; the reason is that they are crazy-busy. Since they’re not punching a clock at
Safeway or picking up kids at day-care, what could they be doing that is more important than learning in class? The answer
is that they are consumed by the same kinds of extracurricular activities that got them here in the first place.
Some of these activities, like writing for the campus newspaper, are clearly educational, but most would be classified
in any other setting as recreation: sports, dance, improv comedy, and music, music, music (many students perform in more
than one ensemble). The commitments can be draconian: a member of the crew might pull an oar four hours a day, seven days
a week, and musical ensembles can be just as demanding. Many students have told me that the camaraderie, teamwork, and
sense of accomplishment made these activities their most important experiences at Harvard. But it’s not clear why they
could not have had the same experiences at Tailgate State, or, for that matter, the local YMCA, opening up places for
less “well-rounded” students who could take better advantage of the libraries, labs, and lectures.
3:大学への名無しさん
14/09/09 05:47:23.46 zeyndQq+0
（続き）
The anti-intellectualism of Ivy League undergraduate education is by no means indigenous to the student culture. It’s
reinforced by the administration, which treats academics as just one option in the college activity list. Though students
are flooded with hortatory messages from deans and counselors, “Don’t cut class” is not among them, and professors are
commonly discouraged from getting in the way of the students’ fun. Deans have asked me not to schedule a midterm on a big
party day, and to make it easy for students to sell their textbooks before the ink is dry on their final exams. A failing
grade is like a death sentence: just the first step in a mandatory appeal process.
It’s not that students are unconditionally pampered. They may be disciplined by an administrative board with medieval
standards of jurisprudence, pressured to sign a kindness pledge suitable for kindergarten, muzzled by speech codes that
would not pass the giggle test if challenged on First Amendment grounds, and publicly shamed for private emails that
express controversial opinions. The common denominator (belying any hope that an elite university education helps students
develop a self) is that they are not treated as competent grown-ups, starting with the first law of adulthood: first
attend to your priorities, then you get to play.
4:大学への名無しさん
14/09/09 06:02:44.08 QEK/NiH60
リンク先の写真見たら日本の受験とえらい環境が違うな
日本なんて公平のはずのセンターでも問題冊子がはみ出るほど小さい高校の机とか隣とつながった机とかとにかく環境がひどい
大学の大講義室の木の倒す椅子でやったら二日目はほとんどの人が背中痛めてるわ
5:大学への名無しさん
14/09/09 06:12:02.05 QEK/NiH60
日本と同じでわろた①
Many students have told me that the camaraderie, teamwork, and
sense of accomplishment made these activities their most important experiences at Harvard. But it’s not clear why they
could not have had the same experiences at Tailgate State, or, for that matter, the local YMCA, opening up places for
less “well-rounded” students who could take better advantage of the libraries, labs, and lectures.
日本と同じでわろた②
pressured to sign a kindness pledge suitable for kindergarten