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universities which according to him don't teach what they're supposed to teach and charge too much for it ben nelson founder of the minerva project welcome to the studio and thank you for the time pleasure to be here thanks for having me about ben when you talk about higher education you always make a distinction between information knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture after the roman goddess of wisdom which leads me to conclude that you believe you provide the latter but what about the rest of the system what do you think it's selling well what it's selling is not necessarily what it's delivering but if you go to any website of almost any university in the world certainly any university in the united states you will see claims such as that this university will to try to think critically it will solve teaches you how to solve problems that will teach you how to communicate well and work well with other people it'll teach you to be global in your thinking that all sounds wonderful and in fact i think if anybody thinks about what is the role of higher education we all would all agr
universities which according to him don't teach what they're supposed to teach and charge too much for it ben nelson founder of the minerva project welcome to the studio and thank you for the time pleasure to be here thanks for having me about ben when you talk about higher education you always make a distinction between information knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture after the roman goddess of wisdom which leads me to conclude that you believe you provide the latter but...
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universities which according to him don't teach what they're supposed to teach and charge too much for it ben nelson founder of the minerva project welcome to the studio and thank you for the time pleasure to be here thanks for having me when you talk about higher education you always make a distinction between information knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture off to.
universities which according to him don't teach what they're supposed to teach and charge too much for it ben nelson founder of the minerva project welcome to the studio and thank you for the time pleasure to be here thanks for having me when you talk about higher education you always make a distinction between information knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture off to.
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universities which according to him don't teach what they're supposed to teach and charge too much for it ben nelson founder of the minerva project welcome to the studio and thank you for the time pleasure to be here thanks for having me about ben when you talk about higher education you always make a distinction between information knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture after the roman goddess of wisdom which leads me to conclude that you believe you provide the latter but what about the rest of the system what do you think it's selling well if what it's selling is not necessarily what it's delivering but if you go to any website of almost any university in the world certainly any university in the united states you will see claims such as that this university will be try to think critically it will solve teaches you how to solve problems it will teach you how to communicate well and work well with other people it'll teach you to be global in your thinking that all sounds wonderful and in fact i think if anybody thinks about what is the role of higher education we all would all ag
universities which according to him don't teach what they're supposed to teach and charge too much for it ben nelson founder of the minerva project welcome to the studio and thank you for the time pleasure to be here thanks for having me about ben when you talk about higher education you always make a distinction between information knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture after the roman goddess of wisdom which leads me to conclude that you believe you provide the latter but...
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welcome back to worlds apart with ben nelson founder of the minerva project than i generally out of yourstudents i wish i could quit my job and imply it's your school but. the question is how scalable is that model because you know how many students you have a few 10600 students as undergraduates we also have an asterisk program to ok so even even when you have a few 1000 it's still a drop in the ocean compared to the 99000 at penn state or even the 23000 at harvard do you think those big legacy schools can really do what you are trying to do giving this individualized attention while also dealing with such a massive number of students yes so the reality is that when you look at the underlying costs of delivering what we have provided is a fraction of the costs of delivering what the existing american university provides and if you think about the resources that harvard and other elite universities claim to deploy they certainly have plenty of capacity to do so for example if you look at the student faculty ratios at most universities a minerva we have about one faculty member for every
welcome back to worlds apart with ben nelson founder of the minerva project than i generally out of yourstudents i wish i could quit my job and imply it's your school but. the question is how scalable is that model because you know how many students you have a few 10600 students as undergraduates we also have an asterisk program to ok so even even when you have a few 1000 it's still a drop in the ocean compared to the 99000 at penn state or even the 23000 at harvard do you think those big...
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universities which according to him don't teach what they're supposed to teach and charge too much for it ben nelson founder of the minerva project welcome to the studio and thank you for the time pleasure to be here thanks for having me about when you talk about higher education you always make a distinction between information knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture after the roman goddess of wisdom which leads me to conclude that you believe you provide the latter but what about the rest of the system what do you think it's selling well what it's selling is not necessarily what it's delivering but if you go to any website of almost any would have.
universities which according to him don't teach what they're supposed to teach and charge too much for it ben nelson founder of the minerva project welcome to the studio and thank you for the time pleasure to be here thanks for having me about when you talk about higher education you always make a distinction between information knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture after the roman goddess of wisdom which leads me to conclude that you believe you provide the latter but what...
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universities which according to him don't teach what they're supposed to teach and charge too much for it ben nelson founder of the minerva project welcome to the studio and thank you for the time pleasure to be here thanks for having me now when you talk about higher education you always make a distinction between information knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture after the roman goddess of wisdom which leads me to conclude that you believe you provide the latter but what about the rest of the system what do you think it's selling well what it's selling is not necessarily what it's delivering but if you go to any website of almost any university in the world certainly any university in the united states you will see claims such as that.
universities which according to him don't teach what they're supposed to teach and charge too much for it ben nelson founder of the minerva project welcome to the studio and thank you for the time pleasure to be here thanks for having me now when you talk about higher education you always make a distinction between information knowledge and wisdom in fact you called your own venture after the roman goddess of wisdom which leads me to conclude that you believe you provide the latter but what...
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ben vereen. , sothe variety club officer lovingly conducted by our dear friend mr. nelson riddle.l-starto party for dutch reagan." ♪ frank: the music says it all. this is a lovely way to spend an evening. tonight marks a special celebration for variety clubs. we honored the big duke, john wayne, and here we are honoring duke's pal, dutch. we honor the only men from our community who ever wound up living in public housing. [laughter] tonight's guests, rules of protocol have been relaxed. tonight he is dutch. if anyone can't handle that, call him mr. dutch. that's ok. [laughter] as for nancy, do as i do. call her beautiful. [applause] by the way, dutch, you've got a lot of friends here tonight. some of the white house press corps will be served their favorite meal, leak soup. i insisted on having that joke instead of somebody else reading it. dutch did a lot of work in our community. he made 53 motion pictures. 1937 with "love is his lastr" and made picture, "the killers" in 1964. in between, stark victory, brother rat, hellcats of the navy with nancy, the hasty heart and my favorit
ben vereen. , sothe variety club officer lovingly conducted by our dear friend mr. nelson riddle.l-starto party for dutch reagan." ♪ frank: the music says it all. this is a lovely way to spend an evening. tonight marks a special celebration for variety clubs. we honored the big duke, john wayne, and here we are honoring duke's pal, dutch. we honor the only men from our community who ever wound up living in public housing. [laughter] tonight's guests, rules of protocol have been relaxed....
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ben. [applause] frank: and the variety club orchestra, so lovingly conducted for many years by our dear friend, nelsonight, under the direction of mr. nick perito. [applause] ♪ host: welcome to our "all-star party for dutch reagan." ♪ [inaudible] [laughter] frank: the music says it all, ladies and gentlemen. this is a lovely way to spend an evening. tonight marks a very special celebration for variety club. we started out by honoring the big duke, john wayne, and here we are honoring duke's pal, dutch. tonight we honor the only man from our community who ever wound up living in public housing. [laughter] frank: and for tonight's guests, i am happy to say, the rules of protocol have been relaxed. tonight, he is dutch. and if anyone can't handle that, you can call him mr. dutch. and that's ok. [laughter] frank: as for nancy, do as i do. call her beautiful. [applause] frank: by the way, dutch, you've got a lot of friends here tonight. some of the white house press corps, who will be served their favorite meal, leak soup. [laughter] frank: i insisted upon having that joke instead of somebody else reading
ben. [applause] frank: and the variety club orchestra, so lovingly conducted for many years by our dear friend, nelsonight, under the direction of mr. nick perito. [applause] ♪ host: welcome to our "all-star party for dutch reagan." ♪ [inaudible] [laughter] frank: the music says it all, ladies and gentlemen. this is a lovely way to spend an evening. tonight marks a very special celebration for variety club. we started out by honoring the big duke, john wayne, and here we are...