American Dream

摘要

The academic campus is among the greatest American inventions. Because it is not an iconic object, like a skyscraper, and does not move you the way jazz, blues, or rock 'n' roll do, you might not think of it with as much patriotic exultation. Yet few things better embody American values at their best or have produced more great spaces. The American campus is our democracy, our sense of progress, and our ability to take diverse identities and create communities in courtyards, dorms, classrooms,rnlaboratories, and other edifices of education. It is a physical model of what America wants to be.