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How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools 199
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023945.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ion she would be able to get a job. He agreed. I then asked whether job skills were in fact taught to the majority of students there and whether the faculty, by and large, actually had ever worked anyplace but a university. He laughed. It is OK that Yale hires only intellectu...

What Can’t You Teach? 43
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023789.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…omething you can think about consciously. The real issue, in the end, is interests. Teaching works best when you teach students who agree that they really want to learn what- ever it is you have to teach. This means making sure that students are preparing to do things that they...

How the Best Universities Inadvertently Ruin Our Schools 207
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023947.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…anything other than a research area. Making a real living with what they teach is not on any faculty member’s mind. But students go to college precisely because they think they will get a job afterward that college will have prepared them for. It just isn’t true. Teaching how to...

types of cases there are. Is it hard to gather evidence properly? Prob
document IMAGES-007-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023816.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… Notice that this is a very different question from asking what an insurance adjuster knows and then asking how to tell students what they should know. Making the transformation from the list of knowledge given above by the online course offerers into Q]1 is the real issue in tr...

creativity and he said that this class was certainly not about that. | disliked and
document IMAGES-002-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013661.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… which | was not prepared. This left me standing at the blackboard until the end of the hour, after all the rest of the students had solved theirs and sat down. On parent’s night, Mr. Kirby told my father that | needed more “social and intellectual discipline.” Inspired and pers...

Re: poetry and science
email TEXT-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025514.txt Dec 2, 2014 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ith economist Lawrence Summers on Oliver Wendell Holmes, (and technology and "one hoss shay" depreciation) with Harvard students at the Nantucket Whaling Museum and with , John Steele, editor of the science magazine, Nautlilus, on Lowell and Melville with Vice President Al Gore o...