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The Purpose of Harvard is Not to Educate People 
Cosmic Variance | by Sean | Fri, May 30
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Of course, certain individual faculty members at Harvard might be great teachers and care deeply about their students; but that’s a bonus, not a feature of the institution. (Harvey Mansfield, to a visiting colleague: “You should close your door. If you don’t, undergraduates may wander i...
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