The Global Search for Education: Change Leaders — Leon Botstein
Nov17

The Global Search for Education: Change Leaders — Leon Botstein

  “No matter what the technology, the learning is about face to face.  The crude analogy I would make is between learning and sex.  Technology can greatly improve, broaden and diversify what we define as the sexual experience, but in the end it’s about intimacy and human contact in real time.” — Leon Botstein A speech from Bard College’s President Leon Botstein is an enlightening conclusion to a...

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The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food….
Jul26

The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food….

 Leon Botstein will conduct the landmark production of Richard Strauss’s opera Die Liebe der Danae opening Bard Music Festival July 29 photo courtesy of Bard College.  If music be the food of educational excellence, play on Maestro Botstein. Give me excess of Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae at Bard Summerscape 2011. That strain again Maestro, it had a dying fall. It came o’er my ear like the sweet sound of...

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