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AMA | November 2021

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Purpose of Harvard Is Not to Educate People

The point is that your ability to teach students oes not effect how you're going to get hired at one of these, like harvard, princeton, calte kind of places. They just don't care at all. And when they say they are, that teaching is very important to them, they're just lying. It's just false. There are other universities, other ar a colleges and so forth, where teaching students isthe point. But there the teaching of students is just an afterthought. That's just what a place like harvard is about.

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