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This reminded me: it's important to engage critically with ideas that I learned before I knew how to engage critically with ideas. I'm not at all confident that I would have balked at the teacher's explanation of lift even now, and that's a little alarming!
The September Open Thread, Part 2 has got nearly 800 posts, so let's have a little breathing room.
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