Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "2017 Индивидуальность 11: Экзистенциализм: Ницше, Достоевский, Кьеркегор" video.

  1. I'm pretty lax on tardy students, as long as they aren't disruptive. When they're late, they're only hurting themselves, especially when they come to me for a letter of recommendation. "Good kid. Always late." But when I drill deeper into most of the habitually-tardy students, I find that they're scrambling to get to class at all, with drop-off times for their kids that conflict with class time. A job that makes them late to school, every morning. About half my students are non-traditional, with jobs and families competing with their deep desire to improve themselves.
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  2. He's been lecturing on these topics for decades. He's got these talks pretty well honed. As a lecturer, I found it very palling to give the same talks over and over, with every point, every little joke, everything planned and choreographed. That's when I shifted to video. Put that talk in the can. Share it with students. Free up class time for questions and independent student work. Most students can slurp up the knowledge faster than the most brilliant lecturer can provide it. I'm in math. But I imagine the same applies to other disciplines. Most students can process the notes (or a transcript) more quickly than a person can write it or say it. And for those who are SLOWER than the lecturer, a video that they can pause, or notes that they can pore over for longer periods are much more helpful than a lecture that's too fast and too advanced for them in real-time. Learning is the ultimate, individualized activity. "Great lectures" are kind of obsolete.
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  3. This is a topic I've picked around, informally, for years. I can SEE the rejection of God by some, alongside the seemingly irrational BELIEF in God, by others. Those who 'rationally reject God' rarely ask themselves what FUNCTION that irrational belief serves, let alone come up with a healthy society that can persist over generations. We KNOW that religions persist, and are an organizing principle for much (most?) of what's GOOD about society and makes it sustainable. Peterson's trying to help us avoid the nihilism that crops up when you reject permanence in response to your own impermanence. Traditions can be very silly things, indeed, but without them, do we start over as hunter-gatherers every new generation?
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