<p>“If you’re a true Brown student, and I think that most students at Brown are, are a “true” Brown student, then you are interested in what you are doing, and intellectually engaging in the material and not just reproducing facts” </p>
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<li>Prof at a writing seminar I just went to. I thought this was a good quote.</li>
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<p>Touche. I think that's a perfect way to describe a true-blue (or should it be true-brown?) Brunonian.</p>
<p>Hmm, sounds like typical fodder though, no? Outside of the word Brown, I could not have guessed which school this quote represented (Swarthmore, Reed, U Chicago...?).</p>
<p>Well yes, I suppose you could adopt that statement to describe any intellectual school...</p>
<p>thats me. i hope.</p>
<p>sure! there are a lot of schools that would be described by that quote, but I haven't been to them, and I think this one is particularly applicable at brown. </p>
<p>i think one of the differentiating factors that is implied in this school is that people are genuinely interested and motivated by that and not sheerly by success, which is true of a lot of other top-ranking schools. I don't know how success-driven people at swat, reed, etc. are. I haven't been there! But I do know that while people here are ambitious, it's not what they care about the most. Education is much more than a means to an end.</p>