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are autodidacts. They like to teach themselves, rather than be spoon-fed information or knowledge in standard educational settings. Famously, three Silicon Valley creative geniuses have been EFTA00669767 college dropouts: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg. Steve Jobs —for many, the archetype of th
have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia." This pattern is a recurring theme in Shakespeare's plays, such as when Theseus, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, observes, "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet / Are of imagination EFTA00669749 al
students’ school year when I took a job with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as the Chief Education Officer of its new West Coast campus, located in Silicon Valley. There HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023840 New Curricula for a New Way of Teaching 95 were no faculty located at this campus, since Carnegie Mellon is in Pitts
at we do in school. We need to think about education in a new way. Rather than wanting people to be educated, which usually means being able to quote Shakespeare or nod sagely when Freud’s name is mentioned, we need to expect people to be able to think well. Education would be better defined by defining an edu
g for influence. They represent the crucial background against which we will all live, build businesses, travel and learn. You might feel, sitting in Silicon Valley or Iowa, that such shifts don’t matter to you now, but the cold truth is that the international system is unlikely to be arranged, in two or three de
lague, strangled as heretical, burnt up in a library fire, or dissolved by some military misfortune. This is why, for instance, we have almost all of Shakespeare and why we are missing so much of Sappho. Widespread knowledge changed this. A solid, inarguable base endured. “If 1 have seen further,” Newton famou
anged my life.” He had five children by that time—video-game players—who got him into the “flving robots.” He quit his day job at Wired. The rest is Silicon Valley history. 103 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016906 GRADIENT DESCENT Chris Anderson Chris Anderson is an entrepreneur; former editor-in-chief of Wired; co-founde
ommunity, must say something substantially different from the community’s previous common stock of information.” This was why “schoolboys do not like Shakespeare,” he concluded: The Bard’s couplets may depart starkly from random bitstreams, but they had nonetheless become all too familiar to the sense-making p
anged my life.” He had five children by that time—video-game players—who got him into the “flving robots.” He quit his day job at Wired. The rest is Silicon Valley history. 103 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016323 GRADIENT DESCENT Chris Anderson Chris Anderson is an entrepreneur; former editor-in-chief of Wired; co-founde
ommunity, must say something substantially different from the community’s previous common stock of information.” This was why “schoolboys do not like Shakespeare,” he concluded: The Bard’s couplets may depart starkly from random bitstreams, but they had nonetheless become all too familiar to the sense-making p
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