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Ridgewood NJ, a Yale Computer Science professor gives freshmen students some unorthodox advice in , Ten Things They Didn’t Tell You at Freshman Orientation (https://www.businesstelegraph.co.uk/ten-things-they-didnt-tell-you-at-freshman-orientation/) , Professor Gelernter states by saying , “Welcome to Yale .Please disregard what you’ve been told so far, and follow these instructions.”
Definition of thinking
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: the action of using one’s mind to produce thoughts
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a : opinion, judgment I’d like to know your thinking on this
b : thought that is characteristic (as of a period, group, or person) the current student thinking on fraternities
Mr. Gelernter a professor of computer science at Yale and chief scientist at Dittach LLC. goes on to list the following points:
1. Understand that you’re here to learn how to be good citizens of the United States.
2. You are now a part-owner of Western civilization. This should be no surprise: You have come, after all, to one of the country’s leading schools for training Western leaders.
3. Now that you are a college student, learn skills. Everything else can wait. Learning science, mathematics or engineering centers on learning skills. Much of the arts, letters and history is centered on skills too. Learn as much music as you can. Master at least one foreign language completely. Reading and writing English are the most important skills of all.
4. Listen skeptically. Grade-school education is built on the myth that the teacher knows what he’s doing. Here, things are different. Never close your mind to the possibility that your teacher—despite his authoritative tone, his many books, papers, patents, theorems or epic poems, his international reputation and his world-wide following—might not know what he’s talking about.
5. Remember that a professor has no business mentioning his personal politics in class, ever.
6. There are only two oppressed minority groups on campuses today—practicing Jews and Christians. They are not badly oppressed. But you will hear them mentioned with a caustic disrespect that is strictly forbidden with respect to all other groups. The damage is minor; caustic disrespect is what college is for. But if contempt for Jews and Christians is OK, any group should be fair game.
7. If you want to be educated, you can’t skip the hard subjects. You must master at least a year of college-level biology and a year of physics—and you’d be foolish not to take a term of computer science.
8. You must know the Bible and Shakespeare. They used to be the shared heritage of all educated Anglo-Americans, and Western civilization still takes them for granted.
9. Don’t expect to be guided in your social life by the behavior of older students. Most of your peers have no clue how to lead their lives, in part because the older generation hasn’t bothered to give any real guidance.
10. Relax—you, your fellow students and your professors already agree about nearly everything: President Trump, taxes, environmental policy, military spending, federal regulation, gun rights, voting rights, voting fraud, China, Brexit, immigration, religion in American culture, Ukraine, Putin, school vouchers, public-school spending, corporate average fuel economy, Supreme Court appointments, the space program, urban transportation, highways, Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former Iran deal, affirmative action, school violence and many other topics. But now you’re adults. Why not disagree just once, so you can tell your grandchildren about it?
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Great advice!