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Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.
We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.
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Rosario Dawson, Actress (1979) |
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Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher (1883) |
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Dan Devine, Coach (2002) |
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Mary Johnston, Novelist (1936) |
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