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"I Love Learning; I Hate School": An Anthropology of College

Susan D. Blum

2016

A critique of the structure of traditional higher education and why it doesn't meet the needs of all students.

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Noah is a Junior at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst studying Mathematics as well as Social Thought & Political Economy (STPEC). Noah grew up as a third-culture kid, living most of his life abroad in Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Ireland, and India. He is passionate about math education, as well as learning for its own sake rather than as a means to an end. He is excited to intern with HRP and explore the world of radical pedagogy!
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New podcast: Meritocracy, Anxiety, & the Chinese College Entrance Exam w/ Zachary Howlett

In our latest podcast, Zachary Howlett explores the pros and pitfalls of the gaokao, China's high-stakes national college entrance exam.

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2024 Impact Report

Human Restoration Project has celebrated many important milestones this year on our pathway to restoring humanity to education across the United States and abroad. See our latest impact report for an overview of our work, where we're making strides, our challenges, and what to look forward to in the coming year.

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The difference with school communities, just looking at a normal mainstream school community, what I perceive is a community where there's lots of external goals. You've got five stickers for being great. You've got three they call them smiley faces or they have a name for something. So there's an external reward for being good. For me, it's just like, "Eh-eh." It's such a fundamentally wrong thing in a community to have that as your basis of if you're good or bad.

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