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by kevinalexbrown 5234 days ago
I agree that his post smacked of branding - his first sentence read "Going to Harvard means ..." - and he's clearly impressed by branding - "Based on the research and findings of so many of the students and professors here, it’s clear that this trend is no accident."

But your response seems kind of disproportionate. Even if it did take him a while to learn that asking questions at the risk of seeming dumb is a good thing, and even if it took him observing "pre-eminent scholars" doing it to think it was worthwhile, and yeah, his post is ironically devoid of question-asking, why make fun of someone for learning something?

EDIT: edw wasn't being sarcastic, misread that.

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Agreed, the branding was a bit much. Congrats buddy you go to Harvard and learned to ask questions!
Let's not be petty; it's reasonable to take his post at face-value and assume that he just wanted to pontificate about something that interested him.