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Students are taught how to do things, but many are not forced to reflect on why they should do them or what we are here for.

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How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

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What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (starting a career), Stephen Pinker’s cognitive purpo...more

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Ehimlite universities are strong at delivering their commercial mission. They are pretty strong in developing their cognitive mission. But when it com...more

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Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn around the life of a child or an adult in any cons...more

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(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he writes, but it is only ...more

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I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

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Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding gro...more