College: Commodity or Community?

大学：商品还是社区？

作者: Aaron Swartz | 来源: aaronsw.com | 时间: 2006-10-06

When it was time for me to pick colleges, our family flew to Cambridge, Mass. and went on the tour of Harvard University. It’s a grand, elegant campus, the school has a singular reputation, the neighborhood is one of the most interesting in the world. And yet, on the college tour, this isn’t what they told us. They mentioned a bit about John Harvard and the 1700s but spent most of their time telling us how great it was they had “shopping week”, where you could try out different courses for a couple classes.

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