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The past is a foreign country

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  • ‘When I was your age,’ my father was fond of telling me, ‘I used to walk 5 miles through a foot of snow just to go to school.’ I was impressed for a while, until I noticed that, as he got older, the distance got longer and the snow got deeper

  • I was reminded of that today by an email from my friend and Brandeis colleague Tom Pochapsky, who directed my attention to a fascinating article on the website of Beloit College

  • Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, which provides a look at the cultural background of the students entering college that fall. e creation of Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief, it was originally created as a reminder to the Beloit faculty to be aware of dated references

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‘When I was your age,’ my father was fond of telling me, ‘I used to walk 5 miles through a foot of snow just to go to school.’ I was impressed for a while, until I noticed that, as he got older, the distance got longer and the snow got deeper. I became even more suspicious when I found out from my grandmother that they had lived three blocks from school. In an age of school buses and car-pooling parents, such stories, whether believable or not, conjure up visions of a world almost beyond the imaginations of today’s children. I was reminded of that today by an email from my friend and Brandeis colleague Tom Pochapsky, who directed my attention to a fascinating article on the website of Beloit College (http://www.beloit.edu/ mindset/2014.php).

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