You can't reach the brain through the ears

Why do we have to learn everything the hard way?

Photo cred: my dad I used to get free room and board in exchange for telling students not to go to Oxford. They were applying for fellowships to go study there; I had recently returned from doing one, and Harvard was happy to keep me housed and fed if I would help students win. But I had a bad time at Oxford and I wanted students to know what they were getting into, so I would sit across from them in the dining hall, plates full of chicken tenders and french fries, and explain that postgraduate education in the UK is largely a way of extracting money from foreign students. Professors over…

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