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Gates' intellect is marked by an ability, as he puts it, to "drill down." On a visit to Time Inc.'s new-media facility, he answered questions from a collection of magazine editors as if by rote, but on his way out he asked to see the Internet servers and spent 45 minutes grilling the claque of awed techies there. Broad discussions bore him, he shows little curiosity about other people, and he becomes disengaged when people use small talk to try to establish a personal rapport. Even after spending a lot of time with him, you get the feeling...
...Tosteson and other HMS faculty members pioneered a medical education program called the New Pathway which steered students away from rote memorization. Instead, medical students now spend more time discussing cases in small groups with faculty members...
...Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig defines the true function of a university not as the inculcator of the tools of rote learning, but as the instiller of a life-long love of and respect for knowledge. He writes, "The real university...is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries and which does not exist at any specific location. It's a state of mind, which is regenerated throughout the centuries by a body of people....The real university is nothing less than the continuing body of reason itself...
...theory of a "new pathway," in which an analytical problem-solving approach replaces an emphasis on rote memorization, has received nationwide accolades and has fundamentally changed medical education across the country, colleagues...
...Tosteson introduced The New Pathway to a limited number of HMS first- and second-year students, hoping to lead medical education away from rote memorization and toward analytical problem-solving, the press release said...