OK. So nobody likes the National Discrimination Observatory. And nobody likes
my idea of randomizing the little labels that mothers and babies get in
maternity wards over night and shipping the babies out at random the next
morning. So how about this. Let it be the case that all people are c
Come on Nick... outside new disciplines emerging, those who will change a
discipline over the next 20 years are typically well embedded within the
discipline now. That's kind of how cumulative knowledge construction works.
But... to emphasize it a bit more bluntly The primary purpose of
college
That is interesting and sounds correct to me, Eric. However, people who
major in engineering need a specific set of skills which, not held, will
cause them to be incompetent in an engineering job. That said when I was a
freshman in the College of Engineering and Science one of the deans told us
t
Causation and quantum mechanics. A challenge to physicists and
philosophers. I apologize if someone already referenced this.
https://www.academia.edu/37610082/Causation_and_Quantum_Mechanics?email_work_card=title
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Frank,
Your dean at CMU was right. Any technology we might have learned then was not
relevant five years later. In my only undergraduate electronics course, we
learned to design vacuum tube circuits. Just when transistors were coming in.
I’ve taught over 100 professional short courses around t
Steve,
Hierarchy is an efficient way of doing business/getting things done. It
breaks down and becomes oppressive if the guys at the top always look alike
and stay too long ("the patriarchy"). Leaders waiting to emerge in
organizations are often suppressed by static hierarchical structures--not
t
Eric,
A Marxist would say, I think, although I have barely ever known one, that every
act of training is simultaneously an act of indoctrination and class
reproduction. If the declaration of independence is correct, what an
extraordinary coincidence it is that the children of wealthy well e
Speaking of Marxists, I am reminded of the situationist graffiti:
'Those who lack imagination cannot imagine what is lacking.'
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Nick,
I'm a Piketty fan, and he takes on this subject in "Capital" in a variety
of different ways. For instance, Harvard, Princeton and Yale are so well
endowed by alumni that they get a 6.2% return and they become what Piketty
calls "rentiers", people and institutions able to support themselves
My daughter was admitted to the University of Chicago and the University of
Michigan and I never gave either university a gift.
Frank
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 3:13 PM Merle Lefkoff wrote:
> Nick,
>
> I'm a Pi
Of course not, Frank, but evidently, many do.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 2:46 PM Frank Wimberly wrote:
> My daughter was admitted to the University of Chicago and the University
> of Michigan and I never gave either university a gift.
>
> Frank
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> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
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Frank, I never gave a gift to M.I.T. either, and my youngest son was not
accepted. He went on to graduate from UCSD with a 4.0 average and sold
the GIS company he co-founded to Kodak when he was 23 years old. I have
always assumed he was turned down because he went to a public high school
in the
Wow, your son did very well, Merle I hope your other son will return to
righteous pursuit.
After my daughter was admitted to Chicago I received a call from their
admissions office. The caller said that they were surprised that they
hadn't heard from her. I apologized for not having answered yet
p.s. She and Irene Lee would have been in the same class at Chicago.
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 4:42 PM Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Wow, your son did very well, Merle I hope your other son will return to
> righteou
You know what is interesting in this, Merle and Nick,
is that it begs for a structural analysis of the whole educational system.
I wish I could remember where I saw it, but there was a write-up in some
reputable place (higher-ed journal?) on schools with real scholarships that let
in kids who
Frank says: "The Republic by Plato"
Merle says: "Clearly the implicit bias is that all of these reading
requirements were written by White men."
One point that interests me here is the determination that Plato was white.
Perhaps he should be considered white: he likely owned slaves, he was
educate
Here I think we have to ask Ta-Nehisi Coates, and simply accept whatever he
says, making a good-faith effort to not pick nits in the sentences out of
context, but to engage with the causal picture he argues at the system level.
One part of the argument is: Whiteness is a myth (both figuratively
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