Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "True Stories from a Soviet Spy | Jack Barsky | EP 412" video.

  1. If you're going to be celebrating students for being bright because you think that will mean they will be successful, the best thing you can do for them is to apprentice them as quickly as possible into some practical / useful application of their knowledge. The practical application must produce something that people use, so that whatever praise the student is getting does not simply come from their production of ideas that are judged by a teacher. If their only motivation is this kind of pat on the head -- or worse, they believe down in their bones that such praise is enough to get by in this life -- that will make sure that that student's talent goes either in a useless direction or even a toxic direction.
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  2. "I talked to a guy in CIA, and he said they have the same list" Did you both crib it from the British? Just curious.
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  3. The Conservative call to adventure is entrepreneurialism. We do little or nothing to initiate promising young people into that life.
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  4. "What the h**l do you know when you're 18" If you're good at your studies, you can have gleaned everything it's possible to glean from your education. "You're a credit to their teaching" and all that.
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