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INTRODUCTION
Introduction From the Head of Scholarship "Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined,
relations in modern America to local environmental activism, from
irreverent and original manner possible.� R. Feynmann
poignant poetry to complex mathematics and illustrate just what it
T
he works of scholarship contained herein have
means to exhibit our core value of scholarship.
nothing to do with examined curricula or taught
Education is so much more than a series of examinations – and
materials, and everything to with the individual and
this publication shows that to us, at this school, a sense of learning
singular academic passions of their gifted authors,
for its own sake, and for sheer enjoyment is very much alive and
and the considerable independent research required to produce
well. I hope you find these works thought provoking, sometimes
them. Works in this publication are current in their topic, contrary
challenging and above all most interesting to read.
in their stance and complex in their nature; they range from race
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