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/ aC f Notes Chapter 1 1. In the United States it all stems from a meeting of the Committee of Ten chaired by the president of Harvard in 1892. 2. John Adams, the second president of the United States, said that school should teach us how to live and teach us how to make a living. No subsequent U.S. president has ever understood this point, however. Chapter 2 1. Paul Ramsden. Learning to Teach in Higher Education. New York: Routledge, 1992.. 2. Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson. “Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.” The American Association for Higher Education Bulletin, March 1987. 3. John V. Adams, Student Evaluations: The Ratings Game. Inquiry, 1(2), Fall 1997, 10-16. Chapter 3 1. From a column by Robert Jamieson, Jr., Seattle Pl.com, February 27, 2008. 2. I didn’t start writing about education until 1978. Before that it was always artificial intelligence that concerned me. 3. I have done this in gory detail in Dynamic Memory and in Dynamic Memory Revisited as well as in Explanation Patterns. 4. Tell Me a Story. Chapter 5 1. For more on the origins of the school system, see The Origins of the American High School as well as Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own. 2. Socratic Arts, a company that builds learning-by-doing software for schools, businesses, and government. 227 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023967