From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation®gmail.com> To: roger schank Subject: Re: you wanted positive? Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:55:13 +0000 how do judges make judgements? ??? are you kidding they almost never get to see the result of their decision.. I think this is totally wrong.. they make decisions based on the past behavior of others without concern for the fruitfulness or of the other roads less traveled and where they led On Sun, Nov I, 2009 at 7:10 AM, roger schank < wrote: An Imagined First Year in College I want to make a suggestion that university faculty could adopt. Simply divide the four years that comprise college into two and two. Make the first two the teaching of the 16 processes and the last two the study of the subjects that the faculty so dearly love. Introduction to X, which no dominates the first two years of college for most students, would be abandoned. The faculty hate teaching it anyway and the students hate taking it. (The administration loves those courses though, as I will explain later on.) How would this work? Let's first consider the set of processes grouped under conscious processes: Conscious Processes Prediction is an area of life that is worth getting good at doing. Who, in the various faculties, organize their daily lives around predictions? Economists make predictions. It is what they do all the time. Medical doctors make predictions. Physicists make predictions. Political scientists make predictions. Let's imagine that students were taught by a team of people from these four areas who were the exactly those people who specialized in making predictions all the time in their careers. And, let's suppose that they created a year long course in how to make predictions based on known evidence, past cases, and pushing the boundaries of what is known. Wouldn't this be a better course than Introduction to Physics? The teachers could introduce whatever aspects of physics they wanted to help students understand the