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And i have a lot of students who are going to school for pre-med or the sciences and don't you feel like it makes sense for somebody to go to school and learn basic human anatomy and all of these other classes it's 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 nurse. there is background knowledge that is handy to have while you are operating on someone but ...

Practical in the real world. >> that makes sense but if you don't have the background knowledge and you just know what you'd do by experiencing these firsthand that means you don't 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 human studies just as valid? it is not the same thing where does that misconception come from? to ...

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. they're learning from what they're reading. if at that point they haven't been able to make the leap to fast, fluent reading, they're not going to be amassing the knowledge, that background knowledge that their classmates are getting and they're not going to be learning new words from context. so it's going to become ever harder to read proficiently, to learn from what you're reading. that's the rich get richer idea. that th...

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 can't 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 sense of the electoral relationship here. in one where he talks about the witch hunt, giving up on rus...

Associated with the president or his associates. >> did he unmask the president today in this -- >> i don't 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 we've had a chance to review it, i will issue a statement about what i think it says and what i think it doesn't say. but here we are operating on hearsay on hearsay, and this is simply not a way to conduct an investigation. yes. >> on that point, had the committee been previously briefed about ...