Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: Education
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Academia: Who We Are and Why It Matters
Society has vouchsafed in us an extraordinary privilege and sacred trust, as scholarly stewards and explorers.
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The Hopes of Parents and the Dreams of Children
Education pays bountiful dividends. The nurtured dreams of our children are our most precious asset.
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The Utility of Uselessness: Freeing Minds
Abraham Flexner: A poem, a symphony, a painting, a mathematical truth, a new scientific fact, all bear in themselves all the justification that universities, colleges, and institutes of research need or require.
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Research, Education, Engagement and Bovine Transport
Research universities have three critical, irreducible functions: knowledge creation, education, and engagement. Each sustains the others.
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Transforming Lives via Public Higher Education
Education at a public research university provides so much more than the opportunity to leap economic barriers.We share our passion for the world of ideas, create new knowledge, transfer insights to a new generation, and unlock waking dreams of the future,
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Celestial Mechanics: Why I Know Summer Will Come
Though the long past, languid days of northern latitude summer now seem like a waking dream, I have faith – grounded in science – that summer will come again.