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Old 03-28-2017, 11:17 PM
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Default Re: Fucking education! How does it work?

A co-worker who was a Harvard grad explained Havud to me. You don't go to Harvard to get an undergraduate education. You go to make contacts for your later career. You go to become a Harvard man. The undergraduate education you get will be no better than at any other good college. Yes, you will have access to a first class library.

But you'll have Professor Famous for Great Dane Literature? You will see Professor Famous maybe twice: once at the beginning of the class when he will explain the object of the class and introduces the scornful underpaid grad student who will be doing the actual teaching, and once when he has 'written' a book and has come in to flog it. You will be expected to buy it.

This does not apply to Harvard graduate schools. My informant had not attended one of those.

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