![]() ![]() Indeed, we are a place, so it is said, that is infinitely harder to get into, than it is to get out of. ![]() Ever since the time when one of your alumni, Ben Franklin as a young Boston reporter pilloried Harvard for catering to arrogant, lazy, fashion-minded, and ignorant youths, we have had a reputation for allowing our undergraduates to float freely and sometimes aimlessly through four of their most formative years. This has been an incredible challenge for us. And we in turn have done our best not to ruin them completely, so that they could graduate at least no worse off than when you sent them to us. You have sent battalions, divisions, and even armies of them to Harvard. You have prepared your students superbly. We all know, I think, that the Boston Latin School is older than Harvard, and that the University has totally unsuccessfully been struggling to catch up ever since 1636. ![]() I’ve been asked in the next nine or ten minutes to offer you some brilliant, pithy, and profound remarks about the continuity of the relationship between the Boston Latin School and Harvard over the course of the past 364 years to explain what we mean by the terms “classic” and “classical education” and then to say what the idea of a classical education might consist of in the century that lies ahead. I’m very glad to be with all of you this morning, to celebrate your school and its achievements, and to wish you good fortune as you begin your ambitious fund-raising drive. As a prelude to the panel discussion, Rudenstine spoke about the strong historical ties that have bound Harvard College and Boston Latin for nearly four centuries. The symposium was the first in a series of events launching Boston Latin’s Pons Privatus capital campaign. Rudenstine chatted on March 31 with Boston Latin School students Andrew Barr (left) and Shi Wen Li (who will be attending Harvard in the fall), just before participating in a symposium titled Continuity and Change: Classical Education in the Twenty-First Century. ![]()
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