Abd Razak, Dzulkifli
(2007)
Education is soul deep.
The New Sunday Times.
Abstract
HARRY Lewis, a professor and longtime
dean of Harvard College at Harvard University, wrote an analysis of
the university last year.
On reading his book, Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education, one gets the
impression that something is amiss in undergraduate education at the university.
Lewis implies that the university, indeed others in the US, too, is losing its "soul" as it becomes more and more
consumerdriven.
Increasingly, universities seem to cater to students' desires, instead of shaping their
character as citizens.
Arguably, academic achievement alone is not sufficient to imbue good citizenship. Thus, it is alleged that there
is a decline in American society because its elite universities — on which so much of the future depends—have
forgotten about education.
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