How to fix Harvard

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  • Опубліковано 27 бер 2024
  • "A lot of the problems that universities have faced come from the fact that deans, provosts, and presidents just want to make trouble go away. And so if someone is yelling at them and making their life miserable, they'll do whatever it takes to get them to shut up," argues Steven Pinker.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 48

  • @Vlabar
    @Vlabar 4 місяці тому +35

    Why bother fixing Harvard.

    • @guy-tn2ud
      @guy-tn2ud 4 місяці тому +1

      Because real, TRUE higher education matters to the economy and future of our nation. That is why Russia and China have ALWAYS tried to infiltrate our schools. It is obvious and known. And that is why we should bother to fix harvard.

    • @conwaysmith9167
      @conwaysmith9167 4 місяці тому +6

      Because higher education is important?

    • @coltonward3609
      @coltonward3609 4 місяці тому +4

      Home of skull and bones I don't think it can be fixed.

    • @noname-xo1bt
      @noname-xo1bt 4 місяці тому

      In a better world, a free market of universities would compete for the would-be Harvard students. But we don't have that. We have a cartel of universities, protected by the government.

    • @johnlaughlin5734
      @johnlaughlin5734 4 місяці тому

      @@conwaysmith9167it is important, thus if we should do anything, it should be to support other schools and create new/more higher education, not a college that refuses to do what it supposedly represents as a place of “higher education”

  • @BushyHairedStranger
    @BushyHairedStranger 4 місяці тому +3

    I’d like to go TP Harvard with Nick while high on Acid, prolly be a real kick

  • @AlgoNudger
    @AlgoNudger 4 місяці тому

    *NEVER*

  • @catorials444
    @catorials444 4 місяці тому +1

    Does it help that most supreme court judges come from harvard or Yale?

    • @ٴ032
      @ٴ032 3 місяці тому

      aww hell nah we got some woke ass supreme court judges screw me if I'm in a supreme case (unlikely but still)

    • @NineInchTyrone
      @NineInchTyrone 3 місяці тому

      NO

  • @jakebredthauer5100
    @jakebredthauer5100 4 місяці тому

    I saw this "new" video yesterday

  • @emanueledionisi9359
    @emanueledionisi9359 4 місяці тому

    "emh students have ideas that are not accepted by a certain political party, bad, we need to improve"

  • @irishman1600
    @irishman1600 4 місяці тому +2

    Shut it down?

  • @dougontheotherchannel3078
    @dougontheotherchannel3078 4 місяці тому +2

    How to fix? Has anyone tried 5 gallons and a match?

  • @YouilAushana
    @YouilAushana 4 місяці тому +1

    Everyone needs their butt kissed

  • @jamesdellaneve9005
    @jamesdellaneve9005 4 місяці тому +1

    I love Stephen, however, he’s not the guy to suggest changes. He’s never run anything and is an intellectual fellow traveler. Listen to Eric Weinstein on his ideas. It’ll take a hard ass to change the institution. First, identify its areas of excellence. Protect that. Find its cancer (social sciences, or any other soft area). Starting defunding and firing. Start hiring conservative professors. Don’t lower standards, but be pro-active. Give the new leader 10 years fixed contract.

  • @captain_context9991
    @captain_context9991 3 місяці тому

    Intelligentsia... Intellectual discourse in the US, is virtually dead. Cant be done anymore. Except by people who are experts at balancing the thin line. While lunatics are screaming and throwing things at them from all sides.

  • @jamespier7801
    @jamespier7801 3 місяці тому

    😂

  • @markblack5460
    @markblack5460 4 місяці тому +12

    Harvard would best serve the American people as a strip mall or a parking lot.😊

    • @axepagode4321
      @axepagode4321 4 місяці тому +6

      There is a lot of land. How about a homeless or immigration shelter?

    • @chrischeehan2423
      @chrischeehan2423 4 місяці тому +3

      As a park, and museum to institutional bigotry

    • @markblack5460
      @markblack5460 4 місяці тому +1

      @@axepagode4321 Naval gunnery range?

    • @axepagode4321
      @axepagode4321 4 місяці тому

      @@markblack5460 Daaammn! That's a bit harsh.

  • @mandyogilvie686
    @mandyogilvie686 3 місяці тому +1

    192 like

  • @NineInchTyrone
    @NineInchTyrone 3 місяці тому

    DEFUND HARVARD. 😂

  • @gagestandingready1472
    @gagestandingready1472 4 місяці тому

    Everything changes when Isreal is involved. Then, and only then, the rules change.

  • @joshuamorrison5233
    @joshuamorrison5233 4 місяці тому

    Institutional neutrality is impossible. You can't be neutral on a moving train. University of Chicago can claim ignorance of this all it wants, but societies look to their leading institutions for guidance, whether they admit it or not. I respect Pinker but must disagree on this point. It's true that certain people will be upset that a statement is not "just right" like Goldilocks would want. But the institutions are actors in society. They have to act like them.

  • @chrischeehan2423
    @chrischeehan2423 4 місяці тому

    I think when a person makes a decision to have long hair, but can't see the optics of their own poor self care, they shouldn't really have any weight placed on their opinion.

    • @conwaysmith9167
      @conwaysmith9167 4 місяці тому +7

      And someone who assesses the merits of a person's beliefs on their appearance isn't worth listening to

    • @chrischeehan2423
      @chrischeehan2423 4 місяці тому

      @@conwaysmith9167 Yet his thoughts throughout this video are as misplaced as his style choices😅🤣😂😅🤣😂

    • @noname-xo1bt
      @noname-xo1bt 4 місяці тому

      You assume long hair is poor self care, but you're wrong. Keeping it from being an actual disaster is a lot of work. He probably spends more time self caring for his hair than your lazy ass.