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Erik Hoel • Why We Stopped Making Einsteins
Once again, the nation’s most prestigious center of learning would play a pivotal role in race theory.
Nell Irvin Painter • The History of White People
Several years ago the students of Stanford voted him the best teacher on the faculty, which must have enraged his colleagues because you cannot maintain proper status in an American university without cultivated mediocrity. You must be academically “sound,” which is to be preposterously and phenomenally dull. Once I had a professor who was teaching
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Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex) • Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring
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Andreas Vlach • 4 cards
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
Stark Draper, who runs the big missile lab at M.I.T. and who invented inertial guidance and so on, says publicly, and he’s told me privately, that he doesn’t see any purpose in security classifications—because he says the only effect is to prevent American scientists from communicating adequately.
Peter Mitchell • Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky
It turned out that many of the other students had access to the prof’s old tests. They knew roughly what the professor was going to be covering—and that the special assumption would probably be on the test. After discovering what the other students were up to, Barb started interacting more with her fellow students to make sure she had access to the
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