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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Pied BeautyEach college contains the teacher, the student, the old, the young, the poetic, the prosaic, the bold, the shy, the clever, the plodding, the careless, the careful, the wealthy, the poor, the cold, the compassionate, the indolent, the industrious, the neurotic, the peaceful, the refined, the vulgar, the emotional, the analytical, the earnest, the satirical — and by bringing all this pied beauty together into the small, stable, academically rich setting of a residential college, week after week, year after year after year, the true promise of educational diversity is realized. Robert J. O'Hara, an evolutionary biologist and an old blogfriend of UD's, writes in eloquent advocacy of small, decentralized residential colleges at Inside Higher Education. |