At Harvard graduate school, Sheldrake found that students were spoon-fed and tested constantly with no freedom; the dense reading load was designed to prevent exploration outside the prescribed curriculum, forcing students to read until midnight every night just to keep up.

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Rupert Sheldrake

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I found that they treat graduate students at Harvard um in a way I hadn't been treated and I since I was about 15 you know read these Pages this week read those and we'll test you to make sure you've read it was spoon feeding there was no freedom

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Iain McGilchrist, Rupert Sheldrake and Alex Gomez-Marin in conversationDr Iain McGilchrist
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:27:29 PM

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