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b_b  ·  4726 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Must an Educated Person Know?
I feel like going on a George Carlin style rant about how useless Harvard's list is. Pretty much 0 of those bullet points has anything whatsoever to do with education. Pretty much they are all things that one with an open mind gains through experience, and experience can't be taught at University. To save the rant, I'll just highlight my least favorite:

    The ability to persuade others that your course is the right one.

Apparently Harvard does teach this principle, because I distinctly remember many of their grads doing this over and over in government to the detriment of the people.