Epstein Secrets

tudent council and captain of the debate team. Reading became my passion: literature (Dostoyevski, Shakespeare, Bellow); philosophy (Kant, Aristotle, Plato, Neitsche; history ( ) and politics ( ). Lloved arguing with my professors. One of my favorites was John Hope Franklin, the first African American ap

he M word still rings in my ears every time I indulge in a prohibited food or contemplate an un-Jewish activity (such as enjoying a Wagnerian opera). Freud called it the “superego.” He must have had a Jewish grandmother too. Of course we tried to figure out ways around these prohibitions—half of Jewish

articulations were attributed to the shapes of Platonic solids found among the Neolithic stone circles in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 2000 years before Plato. Each symbolized particular physical and psychological themes. All manifested equal edges and every face of each solid was the same perfect polygon.

ontinuous and global brain state phase transitions. 135 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013635 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013636 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013637 primary process by Freud and his followers. This forgotten language of the unconscious, an archaic needs and fear-driven tongue lurking beneath our supposedly objective disco

y found the answers. Our current education system does not encourage teaching and learning to work this way, and I assume neither did the system that Plato was criticizing when he started to talk about learning by doing and Socratic teaching in the first place. But something important has changed. We ca

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 educated person as one who c