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And i have a lot of students who are going to school for pre-med or the sciences and dont you feel like it makes sense for somebody to go to school and learn basic human anatomy and all of these other classes its sort of essential to a medical profession or even if you are going to study biology? >> image if you are going into surgery and you were given the choice of being operated on by someone fresh out of medical school or the nurse who has been watching for 20-years. i would rather have the ...

Practical in the real world. >> that makes sense but if you dont have the background knowledge and you just know what youd do by experiencing these firsthand that means you dont know how to fix your mistakes because he did and get the basic technical knowledge at school. >> my challenge is is the best way to sit in the classroom paying exorbitant amounts of money or could we get back more efficiently? john: next person. >> ideas graduated from school in indiana but is the engineering degree in h...

To make sense of words on the page, to reading to learn, which means that they are reading these fact-filled books about the solar system, native americans, the civil war. theyre learning from what theyre reading. if at that point they havent been able to make the leap to fast, fluent reading, theyre not going to be amassing the knowledge, that background knowledge that their classmates are getting and theyre not going to be learning new words from context. so its going to become ever harder to ...

Half a dozen or so tweets this morning. what else did he say? >> he is trying to make some political arguments that may resonate with his base at a time when there is certainly a media strategy to put pressure on the special counsel probe. and if that cant work because the counsel will of course continue independently until it reaches its conclusion, little president is trying to influence how people view what is happening. so of the tweets today, let me point out two of them that give you a sen...

Associated with the president or his associates. >> did he unmask the president today in this -- >> i dont know. again, this is the problem. this is the precise problem when the information is not shared with the committee itself. we will be seeking this information. we will be evaluating it. and once weve had a chance to review it, i will issue a statement about what i think it says and what i think it doesnt say. but here we are operating on hearsay on hearsay, and this is simply not a way to ...

Way to try to assist them to do the sort of groundwork that the president says u.s. troops would not do. that is notable because rogers has some sway with his work on the intelligence committee and has a lot of background knowledge based on the briefings hes been able to get. thats one voice. r what heal call an hour long response to the presidents speech on libya. very opposed to action there and congress not having the more typical consultation that some members it think they deserve. they bel...