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47:057K views · 1d ago · 47:05
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
48:497K views · 4d ago · 48:49
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
47:409K views · 9d ago · 47:40
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
43:2711K views · 16d ago · 43:27
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
53:0310K views · 18d ago · 53:03
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
49:5410K views · 23d ago · 49:54
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
44:5512K views · 25d ago · 44:55
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
46:5412K views · 1mo ago · 46:54
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
46:3514K views · 1mo ago · 46:35
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
50:2716K views · 1mo ago · 50:27
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
Topics: Plato on character education · Imitation and habit · Censorship of the epics · Imitation and music · Music and character · The noble lie
47:3614K views · 1mo ago · 47:36
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
52:1714K views · 1mo ago · 52:17
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
47:3420K views · 1mo ago · 47:34
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
48:3081K views · 1mo ago · 48:30
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
44:5428K views · 1mo ago · 44:54
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
41:54144K views · 1mo ago · 41:54
College is a crucial institution in which our society works through its expectations for young people. This course explores the purposes of college education through the first great book on the philosophy of education, Plato’s Republic. We read The Republic in conversation with other thinkers including Aristotle, Confucius, John Stuart Mill, Virginia Woolf, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King.
10:1735K views · 2mo ago · 10:17
Guest: Understanding Medical Research
Medical research papers are dense, jargon-heavy, and mostly read secondhand through journalists and social media. This introduction covers who the course is for, what it promises, and how each lecture runs, from goals to real-world examples to take-home points.
Topics: Welcome and goals · Meet the instructor · Why medical studies are hard to read · Who this course is for · Three promises · Lecture structure and course logistics
18:1817K views · 2mo ago · 18:18
Guest: Understanding Medical Research
Medical research follows a long path from hypothesis to published manuscript, and most of that path stays hidden from the reader. This video covers grant funding, peer review, journal publication, how to get papers for free, and the incentives that shape what gets published.
Topics: Goals: the 10,000-foot view · The greatest salesman in the world · What research costs and returns · From idea to manuscript · Peer review and publication charges · Getting around paywalls
14:0710K views · 2mo ago · 14:07
Guest: Understanding Medical Research
A medical manuscript is a highly structured document, and the rules for writing one double as rules for reading one. This video covers each section, from title and abstract to methods, results, and discussion, and where the spin tends to live.
Topics: Goals and an imaginary water study · The title: exposure and outcome · The abstract · Background and hypothesis · Methods and the primary outcome · Results and Table 1
12:438K views · 2mo ago · 12:43
Guest: Understanding Medical Research
A positive study is not the same as a true one, and the replication crisis is what happens when medicine forgets that. This video covers four types of studies: positive or negative, along with true or false hypothesis.
Topics: Goals and a psychic demonstration · The four types of studies · Positive studies get the headlines · Why replication matters · How often studies replicate · Why nobody replicates
10:259K views · 2mo ago · 10:25
Guest: Understanding Medical Research
Every medical study links an exposure to an outcome, and the question the researchers wanted to ask is often larger than the one they actually asked. This video covers how to name the exposure and outcome in any study, which exposures can change, and the three hard outcomes.
Topics: Goals · Gun shows and firearm deaths · What counts as an exposure · Hard and soft outcomes · Causal diagrams, mediators, and confounders · The exposure outcome game
2:003K views · 2mo ago · 2:00
Can simply giving a reason make someone more likely to say yes? Professor Daylian Cain revisits the famous Harvard Xerox experiment—and explains the crucial finding that most people overlook: when the request gets bigger, your reason needs to be genuinely persuasive.
1:557K views · 2mo ago · 1:55
What does nine months of study change about the way you show up for young people? Ask the people who just finished. Hear from the latest cohort of the Yale Youth Ministry Institute’s Certificate in Youth Ministry Leadership as they reflect on their experience, and take a look back at their May 28 program ceremony.
34:145K views · 2mo ago · 34:14
Guest: Barry Nalebuff
Yale professors Barry Nalebuff and Daylian Cain sit down for a wide-ranging conversation about the art, strategy, and psychology of negotiation. Drawing on more than a decade of teaching negotiation together at Yale, Barry and Daylian explore how their approaches complement one another—from understanding what the person across the table truly values to finding “elegant trades” that create value for both sides.
Topics: The Psychology of Negotiation · How Can You Tell if Something is Small for You and Important for Them? · How Do We Apply Techniques in High Stakes Scenarios? · How Do You Avoid "Anchoring Bias?" · How Do You Deal with a Liar Opponent? · How Do You Deal with an Underprepared Opponent?
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