{"id":11,"date":"2006-12-08T02:06:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anon\/2006\/12\/08\/education\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T02:08:41","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T07:08:41","slug":"education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anon\/2006\/12\/08\/education\/","title":{"rendered":"education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in high school, I thought education was simply about learning as much as you could; that is, maximizing what you could memorize from teachers and your textbook.  In the end, that&#8217;s what you were tested on.  How well you memorized, and, to the slightest degree, how you could apply that knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>But college is proving quite the different endeavor.  It&#8217;s not so much about memorizing trivial details&#8211;though that certainly lends interest into many subject matters, in my opinion&#8211;but about the broader thought process.  I can&#8217;t believe how much I&#8217;m learning to think, without realizing it, and how much more there is for me to expand.  Our minds are like balloons that never reach a maximum inner pressure; somehow, they just keep expanding.<\/p>\n<p>And someone told me today that our education, indeed our upwards of $42000 tuition, is not for learning information, but meeting people and experiencing things only Harvard can provide.  And in the end, it&#8217;s up to us to make our personal and social and even academic privileges worth the hefty price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in high school, I thought education was simply about learning as much as you could; that is, maximizing what you could memorize from teachers and your textbook. In the end, that&#8217;s what you were tested on. How well you memorized, and, to the slightest degree, how you could apply that knowledge. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}