His alma mater “armed us not just with the stuff of the trade, but also how to negotiate a larger world.'
Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns is carrying a torch in the fight to save Hampshire College, which hit a financial rough patch in recent years. The filmmaker’s college experience differed from many others': There were no grades and no fixed curriculum at Hampshire, and students blazed their own paths. They still do today.
“It made me interested in not being a cog in something else but to design my own way. We see that the word ‘career’ itself essentially suggests that the path ahead has been well trodden,” he said. “Hampshire suggests that your own unique combination of interests and experience that comes into Hampshire gets transformed into something, and you find your own way, you forge your own path.”
“[Hampshire College] armed us not just with the stuff of the trade but also how to negotiate a larger world,” Burns said. Ken Burns learned about Hampshire College in 1970, when his friend showed him a Newsweek article. Newsweek “This admissions scandal is the epitome of the horrific sense that all of higher education has become transactional,” he said. “Hampshire has always been, and remains to this day, transformational. That’s the difference here.”
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