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From: Ndodo Nnaemeka <dndodo@yahoo.com>
Date: 11 July 2011 15:52
Subject: Re: Fwd: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Summer (High) Schooling at Harvard
To: "toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com" <toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com>
Dear Adepoju,
Yes I even have pictures of even kindergartens,and elementary school pupils who troop into Harvard daily visiting various labs. Sometimes, you see them even eating and playing on the luscious green lawns of Harvard yard. The idea is to evoke enough interest in this young minds for mind-bending research and seasoned scientific quest.
Again lots of high school students are on hand working with undergraduate,graduate, post-doctoral and visiting fellows in the same laboratory space in what can truly be referred to as a scientific team, with the hope of attracting this young fellows into careers in science. These young fellows are exposed to state-of-the-art facility to pursue a scientific investigation for the summer, then tell me how these individuals will have problem knowing a career to follow in life.
Contrast this quiet mentoring and career guidance with the forced- career path we see in Nigerian context, when everyone wants to study medicine or law because the father wants him to do it.
We still have a lot to learn from the general idea of Summer School not only at Harvard but in America, Europe and some Asian countries. In the trains and other public places you see advert concerning Harvard, IMT and lots of Universities' summer programs, because it offers these colleges an opportunity of catching this young minds early and keep them working hard to scale the barriers of acceptance into Ivy league school( In fact, the acceptance rate at Harvard is 7%) or other school of their choice.
Nnaemeka
Visiting fellow
Harvard Stem cell inst.
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From: Ndodo Nnaemeka <dndodo@yahoo.com>
Date: 11 July 2011 15:52
Subject: Re: Fwd: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Summer (High) Schooling at Harvard
To: "toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com" <toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com>
Dear Adepoju,
Yes I even have pictures of even kindergartens,and elementary school pupils who troop into Harvard daily visiting various labs. Sometimes, you see them even eating and playing on the luscious green lawns of Harvard yard. The idea is to evoke enough interest in this young minds for mind-bending research and seasoned scientific quest.
Again lots of high school students are on hand working with undergraduate,graduate, post-doctoral and visiting fellows in the same laboratory space in what can truly be referred to as a scientific team, with the hope of attracting this young fellows into careers in science. These young fellows are exposed to state-of-the-art facility to pursue a scientific investigation for the summer, then tell me how these individuals will have problem knowing a career to follow in life.
Contrast this quiet mentoring and career guidance with the forced- career path we see in Nigerian context, when everyone wants to study medicine or law because the father wants him to do it.
We still have a lot to learn from the general idea of Summer School not only at Harvard but in America, Europe and some Asian countries. In the trains and other public places you see advert concerning Harvard, IMT and lots of Universities' summer programs, because it offers these colleges an opportunity of catching this young minds early and keep them working hard to scale the barriers of acceptance into Ivy league school( In fact, the acceptance rate at Harvard is 7%) or other school of their choice.
Nnaemeka
Visiting fellow
Harvard Stem cell inst.
Sent from my iPad
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