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As notes, universities mostly don’t teach you to think. That’s a disaster… But it’s difficult: intellectual apprenticeship doesn’t scale. If you are lucky, you *can* learn to think at university—if you find the right teachers—but it’s rare.
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What weird alternative universe is this person tweeting from? Schools don't teach people to think. They just don't. We would all notice if they did. We'd be surrounded by thinkers everywhere. That would be a very different Earth. twitter.com/phildaian/stat…
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The preparedness component in the student is receptivity to intellectual aesthetics. This typically requires a sort of conditioned awareness of its importance from having suffered "wrong" (for you) aesthetics at the hands of teachers who don't have a style that harmonizes.
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Though it was hard for me to admit for years, I did learn from guy I left for Pierre. What I learned there was style and teacher-student "fit" _matter_ at advanced levels where you're doing more than developing muscle-memory level rote skills. You can't power through on "IQ"
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