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Our diverse student body promotes a wide range of views, which is crucial to uncovering the truth. Educational programs that help students understand the world. We Translate the Values of The New York Times into Educational Programs We seek to bring together a diverse group of intellectually curious people whose varied backgrounds make for a wide range of views and perspectives.

About The School. Financial Aid Scholarships. Student Sponsorship Program. Request access for a public school. The Learning Network. Visit the Learning Network. More Initiatives. College education is a proliferation of such possibilities: the beauty of mathematical discovery, the thrill of scientific understanding, the fascination of historical narrative, the mystery of theological speculation.

We should judge teaching not by the amount of knowledge it passes on, but by the enduring excitement it generates. The fruits of college teaching should be measured not by tests but by the popularity of museums, classical concerts, art film houses, book discussion groups, and publications like Scientific American, the New York Review of Books, The Economist, and The Atlantic, to cite just a few. These are the places where our students reap the benefits of their education.

Many will see all this as fuzzy idealism, ignorant of the essentially vocational needs that must drive even college teaching. Students need jobs and employers need well- trained workers.

What do the alleged joys of the mind have to do with these brute facts? But what do they need to do their jobs? Connects Leadership concepts to real-world examples and expands your understanding of how leadership works in the 21st century.

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Explore By Area of Study. American Government Informs student research, models argumentative writing, and stimulates discussion through its succinct reporting, analysis, and commentary.

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