The Shaping of Malleable Hearts with Plato: #soulmates(?)
The concept of a soulmate–#quoi(?)– has consumed humanity since the beginning of time, manifesting in Greek playwright Aristophanes’ introspective plays, in angsty teenage songs #tsoml, and in Damon’s struggle between martyrdom and Elena #vampProbz. As we struggle to ascend on Maslow’s hierarchy, as we enter Erickson’s middle stage of psychosocial development– intimacy vs. isolation– we […]
In Lies We Trust
To cave or not to cave? That is the question that political constituents must consider when analyzing the duties of Washington’s policy-makers. In lieu of the U.S. Supreme Court’s deliberation on an Ohio case that espouses banning campaign lies, analysts are pondering the appearance of futuristic “ministries of truth”–specific branches of the government devoted to […]
Crimson Corruption: Is Coercing Silence an Ivy Tradition?
It is a sardonic truth that, while Harvard alumna are advocating the erasure of an adjective from our lexicon through the use of hashtags, current Harvard students are shattering the glass ceiling of authoritative apathy in the fashion of John Peter Zenger (#freedomofpress). Last month, The Harvard Crimson published an editorial that detailed the sexual […]
The Evolving F Word
“Cotton Mather called them ‘the hidden ones.’ They never preached or sat in a deacon’s bench. Nor did they vote or attend Harvard. Neither, because they were virtuous women, did they question God or the magistrates…Hoping for an eternal crown, they never asked to be remembered on Earth. And they haven’t been. Well-behaved women seldom […]
The Pendulum of Pedagogy: Revitalizing Our Lost Pursuit of Knowledge
Educational systems that stress standardized test scores over abstract reasoning have skewed education’s purpose as a means of attaining self-fulfillment, piquing intellectual curiosity, and cultivating independent learners. Our test-based pedagogy has rendered a global population of Americans who willingly forego the pursuit of knowledge in search of another rung on the socioeconomic hierarchy. What Horace […]