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The story, friends and colleagues say, is classic Laurene Powell Jobs. Famous because
of her last name and fortune, she has always been private and publicity-averse. Her
philanthropic work, especially on education causes like College Track, the college
preparatory organization she helped found and through which she was Ms. Castro’s
mentor, has been her priority and focus.
Now, less than two years after Mr. Jobs’s death, Ms. Powell Jobs is becoming
somewhat less private. She has tiptoed into the public sphere, pushing her agenda in
education as well as global conservation, nutrition and immigration policy.
“She’s been mourning for a year and was grieving for five years before that,” said
Larry Brilliant, president of the Skoll Global Threats Fund who is an old friend of Mr.
Jobs. “Her life was about her family and Steve, but she is now emerging as a potent
force on the world stage, andthis is only the beginning.”
But she is doing it her way. “It’s not about getting any public recognition for her
giving, it’s to help touch and transform individual lives,” said Laura Andreessen, a
philanthropist and lecturer on philanthropy at Stanford who has been close friends
with Ms. Powell Jobs for two decades.
While some people said Ms. Powell Jobs should have started a foundation in Mr.
Jobs’s name after his death, she did not, nor has she increased her public giving.
Instead, she has redoubled her commitment to Emerson Collective, the organization
she formed about a decade ago to make grants and investments in education initiatives
and, more recently, other areas.
“In the broadest sense, we want to use our knowledge and our network and our
relationships to try to effect the greatest amount of good,” Ms. Powell Jobs said in one
of a series of interviews with The New York Times.
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In the past few years, I’ve taught nonfiction writing to undergraduates and graduate
students at Harvard, Yale, Bard, Pomona, Sarah Lawrence and Columbia’s Graduate
School of Journalism. Each semester I hope, and fear, that I will have nothing to teach
my students because they already know how to write. And each semester I discover,
again, that they don’t.
The teaching of the humanities has fallen on hard times. So says a new report on the
state of the humanities by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and so says
the experience of nearly everyone who teaches at a college or university.
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Undergraduates will tell you that they’re under pressure — from their parents, from
the burden of debt they incur, from society at large — to choose majors they believe
will lead as directly as possible to good jobs. Too often, that means skipping the
humanities.
In other words, there is a new and narrowing vocational emphasis in the way students
and their parents think about what to study in college.
There is a certain literal-mindedness in the recent shift away from the humanities. It
suggests a number of things. One, the rush to make education pay off presupposes that
only the most immediately applicable skills are worth acquiring. Two, the humanities
often do a bad job of explaining why the humanities matter. And three, the humanities
often do a bad job of teaching the humanities.
What many undergraduates do not know — and what so many of their professors
have been unable to tell them — is how valuable the most fundamental gift of the
humanities will turn out to be. That gift is clear thinking, clear writing and a lifelong
engagement with literature.
Maybe it takes some living to find out this truth. Whenever I teach older students,
whether they’re undergraduates, graduate students or junior faculty, I find a vivid,
pressing sense of how much they need the skill they didn’t acquire earlier in life. They
don’t call that skill the humanities. They don’t call it literature. They call it writing —
the ability to distribute their thinking in the kinds of sentences that have a merit, even
a literary merit, of their own.
Writing well used to be a fundamental principle of the humanities, as essential as the
knowledge of mathematics and statistics in the sciences. But writing well isn’t merely
a utilitarian skill. It is about developing a rational grace and energy in your
conversation with the world around you.