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STEPHEN CARPENTER: Part of what I do is work with people who are preparing to be K-12 art teachers. I actually work with artists. I've taught studio-based courses in ceramics, drawing. And I'm also working with grad students who are interested in engaging in research about and through and within art practices, visual cultural practices. So there's this range of folks with whom I'm working. So one of your-- I'm trying to negotiate a place to enter, Larry. And one of the things that you said was how explicit am I with, as we've been calling it, this hidden agenda, a hidden curriculum? LARRY SUSSKIND: Not as an agenda STEPHEN CARPENTER: No, but it's the same thing, right? In many cases, it's the same thing, right? Because you have an agenda that you're trying to cover, whether it's an official agenda, we can correlate that to the official curriculum. And I'm pulling this term, these curriculum pieces from the work of George Posner ...

PROFESSOR: So what are we trying to do? We're going to try to write a matter wave. We have a particle with energy e and momentum p. e is equal to h bar omega. So you can get the omega of the wave. And p is equal to h bar k. You can get the k of the wave. So de Broglie has told you that's the way to do it. That's the p and the k. But what is the wave? Really need the phase to-- how does the wave look like? So the thing is that I'm going to do an argument based on superposition and very basic ideas of probability to get-- to find the shape of the wave. And look at this possibility. Suppose we have plane waves-- plane waves in the x plus direction. A particle that is moving in the plus x direction. No need to be more general yet. So what could the wave be? Well, the wave could be sine of kx minus omega t. Maybe that's the de Broglie wave. Or maybe the de Broglie wave is cosine of kx minus omega t. But maybe it's neither one of them. Maybe it is an e t...

What is the purpose of the corporation? This is one of the most controversial and perhaps one of the most important questions that we need to address in this course and that you will need to address as the next generation workforce leaders. Why is this the case? Well, because American CEOs have answered this in two different ways. From the 1940s through the '70s and '80s and into the 1990s, there was a broad view of the corporation that has now narrowed down to focus on maximizing shareholder value in the short run. Here's a quote from the CEO of Sonesta Hotels, Roger Sonnabend. He says, "Social responsibility and expanding profitability are not at odds with one another. Quite the contrary. They are two faces of the same coin." That view was shared by a lot of CEOs of his era-- best illustrated perhaps by graduates of this important institution called the Harvard Business School. The class of 1949 is known for producing an enormous number of CEOs tha...

what I want to do today is to start with the um chapter I gave you on marriage same seex and opposite sex and Veronica I think was going to give a presentation which could I don't know whether I asked for that uh cover that as well as the reading in the pursuit of love I mainly focused on the pursuit of love that could talk a little bit about the marriage one I've read it but well then should we wait for your uh presentation until people have had a chance to air their opinions about the uh about the marriage chapter sure I'm waiting how many um um Veronica could you take a head count not counting St us yeah I got that right stas uh who's just arrived uh but on the people who the other people how many have read that and how many how many have read it okay how many have read it 100% % well yes everyone everyone then I'm sure you must have some ideas about him should I give you a little introduction to get you started it's a subject that um has been T...