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Education in the new era Review: Excellence Without a Soul, by Harry Lewis. [Quote:] His central thesis holds that "Universities have lost the sense that their educational mission is to transform teenagers, whose lives have been structured by their families and their high schools, into adults with the learning and wisdom to take responsibility for their own lives and for civil society" (xiv). In brief, Lewis believes that universities once had a "single, overarching mission" to which all activities conformed. However, he also understands that "Universities are complicated places...," serving "constituencies that have conflicting agendas" (1). Nonetheless, he argues that institutional failure of mission occurs because "Universities lack confidence that they know what they are doing." His conclusion, he insists, reflects his experience in dealing with the resultant problems as Dean of Harvard College during the late 1990s........ Harry Lewis knows Harvard well after more than four decades as student, faculty member, and administrator with the University. Having observed change first-hand during those years, he argues that the more things change, the more they stay the same. From the late 19th century when President Charles William Elliot disestablished the traditional required curriculum, Harvard has become the paradigmatic modern university. Dedicated to research and the pursuit of money and status, serving as a magnet attracting the best and the brightest students to match the outstanding faculty, [/ quote] To parents, don't become driven by the lure of money as the mission of selecting your 's pathway of education. Be of great concern that you continue the value point of promoting excellence of person, and ethics as an individual, to be the driving force of your 's educational aims. If you push for the ethical basis you will promote the quality in character and integrity within the humanity of your , to be and become one who has a drive to be a contributor into life and an up-lifter of society and its citizen people. They will acknowledge and do well with business, because they will not forget that businesses purpose is to serve and service people. in doing so, you attain the glory of being a proud parent to have assisted your in being "a good and honorable person" they and you can and will be proud of in their achievements. Thus so, the legacy of your family moves forth as one of honorable acknowledgement in their humane regard for life and society. |
