I was just thinking about “the thing with the plate” recently as a tangential matter to all the Oppenheimer stuff and never realized that it was addressed in AJP. Thanks for the link! I’m sure I have that very issue on my “yellow shelf”. :)
More and more I am coming to think the academic/educational/ideal value we are pursuing via college comes not so much from talking about "ideas" but from talking about "experience" with the same analytical bent usually reserved for "ideas." Relating our experiences to each other and cultivating an understanding of how other perspectives operate in reality expands our own ability to relate to and utilize our own experiences.
My late wife married me between her freshman and sophomore years at Cal Biserkeley. The unfortunate woman then went to SJ State. She commented that the level of instruction was the same but, the difference was the competition. She was one of the smartest people I ever met.
I was just thinking about “the thing with the plate” recently as a tangential matter to all the Oppenheimer stuff and never realized that it was addressed in AJP. Thanks for the link! I’m sure I have that very issue on my “yellow shelf”. :)
More and more I am coming to think the academic/educational/ideal value we are pursuing via college comes not so much from talking about "ideas" but from talking about "experience" with the same analytical bent usually reserved for "ideas." Relating our experiences to each other and cultivating an understanding of how other perspectives operate in reality expands our own ability to relate to and utilize our own experiences.
My late wife married me between her freshman and sophomore years at Cal Biserkeley. The unfortunate woman then went to SJ State. She commented that the level of instruction was the same but, the difference was the competition. She was one of the smartest people I ever met.