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My follow up letter to the President of Harvard University.

2 min readJun 6, 2025

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I write to you once more, not merely as a concerned scholar or a persistent voice, but as one who bears witness to a quiet catastrophe — the miseducation of the human brain, rooted in a historic and tragic confusion: the failure to clearly distinguish between the mind and the brain.

Harvard, as a cornerstone of global scholarship, holds a sacred responsibility: to ensure that the foundations of knowledge are sound, rigorous, and fit for the future. Yet, we remain perched upon a rickety scaffold of conceptual error. When the mind is left undefined, cloaked in centuries of philosophical fog, and assumed to be one and the same as the brain, we miseducate the very organ we claim to be training. And this miseducation does not stay in lecture halls — it bleeds into society, silently shaping a world of fractured emotional intelligence, broken social standards, and untapped human potential.

The consequences are everywhere: an epidemic of mental health crises, social decay masquerading as progress, and knowledge systems that know everything except themselves.

It is time — past time — for a new scientific renaissance. The brain and the mind must be formally, rigorously, and globally defined as separate entities. A new subject of Brain Education must be born — not as a supplement to current curricula, but as a core pillar of what it means to be an educated human being in the 21st century.

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