Encompassed – Bronx Science Stories
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Encompassed – Bronx Science Stories
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Episodes of Encompassed – Bronx Science Stories
Mark All
"Every year 6,000 people see the benefit of public education. Over 10 years, that's 60,000 people [...] You build a whole constituency of people who feel committed to public education. It would diminish our commitment if you closed the speciali
"Very few of my students end up becoming humanistic academics. But what I am hoping is that the kids I have in freshman humanities, who have to take it whether they like it or not, on some rainy day 25 or 30 years later when they're successful
"Probably 90% of the graduates from '71, by the time we graduated college, were committed to some kind of social change. We walked out of those colleges into a world we felt we had to make a change in some kind of way. The last thing on our min
"There was a healthy sense of competition, but at the same time I think there was a great sense of helping one another. That's the experience that I had."
"You can go to Bronx Science and for a moment all other things are suspended. Afterward we'll split up and go where our footholds in society take us […] but there is that feeling of this amazing squad of students […] There are those kids coming
“The class that saved me was Science Survey, which was the school paper, and Leonard Mannheim, who was the teacher of that class, was just superb […] He helped unlock my love of literature, which is something that has followed me for the rest o
“Reading and rereading and rereading a poem causes it to change. That became my model in general–you know, you take the object and you try to study it. Because the kind of focus required to learn a poem was useful trying to understand my Hallad
“Bronx Science shaped my life. It taught me that I could think critically, it taught me that I could hold my own with really smart people, it taught me that it’s ok to be different from everyone else […] I always kind of felt like an outsider,
“I think there was a clear sense of entitlement and an arrogance that went along with myself and my peers in high school–there was a shrewdness and a hustle and I think that hopefully transformed into more leadership and responsibility–but I th
“Most of us were looking for a theoretical and political rationale for dealing with the world. Many of us came out conservative because as we argued our way through lots of facts and ideologies, […] it became clearer and clearer that The Great
“It’s a pretty special culture in Queens. For the Chinese American families I grew up around, there was a special coveted nature about these three schools. Every summer, it was sitting in a corporate classroom going through test prep materials
“Being at Bronx Science, we were afforded privileges that most other high school kids don’t have. We’re not being body scanned all the time, we’re not being suspended, we don’t have a school to prison pipeline. Simultaneously, though, how does
“One thing about being in pageants is that people think you might not be the brightest. And once I mentioned I went to Bronx Science, they’d be like ‘Wow, that’s amazing.’ And I think that went a long way to show people you can be pretty and sm
“I’ve always really loved music […] A lot of the arts funding got cut when I was a junior so the band and orchestra and a bunch of groups were significantly reduced. I got cut from orchestra, and stopped playing […] That was always in the back
“I was definitely an overachiever, or maybe ‘was’ is the wrong word–I’m still going strong. It’s a funny thing to say in City Hall […] I knew that I never wanted to learn how to type, because I would end up in some sort of secretarial or cleric
“There was the joy of the insight of solving something. It came quite a bit in Math team […] There was usually some sort of very ugly, brute force way you could try to solve a problem, and then there was a really elegant way. I didn’t always fi
“Dr. Maskin was a history teacher, who had a very unconventional approach which stuck with me, and sometimes I still think about it, because he had a way of weaving pop culture into the lesson plan. I forget exactly what we were learning, but i
“I experienced Bronx Science as an oasis of great conversation and imaginative inquiry. I don't remember ever feeling inhibited about asking basic questions. I also don’t remember actually doing any homework. I think we did it on the subway in
"Intellectual surroundings always felt comfortable for me because I knew I could do it. When I was a kid, I was nobody in particular, but when I started first grade in Antwerp, I surprised everybody, because all of a sudden, that little pipsque
“You can’t yearn for something you don’t even know exists. It wasn’t exactly like you’re in a brand new land, but you kind of were. You’re in a land of rarefied intelligence. That doesn’t mean every kid there is a genius, by no means, but even
“My bag was already packed up before the end of the last period. You know, I spent a lot of time lamenting my commute, but in the end looking back on it, you learn a lot about yourself. You learn about your study habits, you make friendships on
“At Science I met other guys who were really into music. We ended up jamming close to every day. One of the bands I was in played at the Apollo Amateur Hour. I remember one of my English teachers came to watch me, which was amazing. We didn’t k
“It was very clear our teams would always get beaten by Clinton. Some things never change. I wonder if the chant we had is still used. It goes like: ‘Harass ‘em, harangue ‘em, make ‘em relinquish the ball.’ I guess you hadn’t heard that before.
“He let me adapt the books and, instead of writing a paper, make a short film. He was one of the few teachers who recognized that by focusing on film I wasn’t shying away from work–I was willing to do more work, but I just wanted to do the work
"I think all my life I've judged people by how smart they are and how well they can communicate. I think Bronx Science gave me the first taste of that."
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