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The war within the Republican Party was not principally an ideological war, though. It was a class war. A patrician like George H.W. Bush was educated to accept that advanced art and literature could be offensive. Being offensive was its social role, harmless as long as the art was safely ensconced in a museum. If you didn’t like the art, you didn’t go to the museum.
~ Louis Menand via The New Yorker

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via the report published by MIT’s Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training:

Leaning into learning means creating a new “social contract” between teachers and students. All of us who teach at MIT will need to be prepared to help students understand both that the process of education is necessarily a productive struggle, and that the most important product of their education is not a GPA or a diploma but themselves: their personal growth and intellectual maturity and the development of their own imagination, insight, and judgment.

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