It would be great too to think through how - ways of thinking (and in terms of understanding of both of these STEM innovation cultures), both of which go back more than 100 years - could lead to further STEM thinking and academic creativity (and in multiple languages re World University and School).

I'd be interested in characterizing, and thinking through, these universities' initial STEM ethoses, how they attracted the best and brightest minds/highest achievers from around the world, and how these cultures have changed as both Stanford and MIT have grown through the decades.

Stanford's motto was "Die Luft der Freiheit weht" - or German for "The wind of freedom blows" with an emphasis I've read (in the Stanford Green library about 4 weeks ago) on freedom, in contrast to at least one east coast school's motto which including the word "veritas" (Latin for truth) with its more disciplinary connotations (in my interpretation here). Stanford didn't have a specific STEM, knowledge or science focus initially, I just read here per se - http://facts.stanford.edu/about/. MIT"s motto was "Mens et Manus," Latin for "mind and hand, " (https://libraries.mit.edu/mithistory/institute/seal-of-the-massachusetts-institute-of-technology/ and http://www.mensetmanus.net/mit-motto/motto.shtml). Both interestingly emphasized from the beginning a practical education. Both seals are in their above links, with their further symbols and words, and which further inform an understanding of their cultures from their beginnings (in this limited interpretation).

As another angle, I'd like to explore, for example Indians, from India, coming to study at MIT and Stanford in the late 1800/ early 1900s, as a further example of this question of culture and the STEM ethos/culture of both.

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How to generate loving and caring in a virtual earth which could also become a creatable STEM field site in all 8k language, and re financial questions too (which has created a lot of alientation in modernity in the west, in my interpretation, as well as comfort and prosperity).

On with re-indexing of my Harbin book ... I'd also like to plan for 6 months of field work per year at Harbin for some years ahead ...

How to generate loving and caring in the world as well (and perhaps emerging from a developing virtual earth - coding for caring in something like a WIKI Google Street View with OpenSim with time slider in all 8k languages, and addressing questions of economics as well) ... (and given the challenges that emerge around money that could negate this since the industrial revolutions especially) ...

Participation observation and interviews would be a fascinating and important contribution to the literature, since many MIT and Stanford innovators from the 1960s/70s are still teaching and inventing and might enjoy talking about their work and these universities' ethoses over the decades.


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MIT's mission:
http://web.mit.edu/mission.html

Stanford's mission:
http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/stanfordsmission/

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Founding of Stanford -
http://facts.stanford.edu/about/

History of Stanford

https://www.stanford.edu/about/history/ -


Were Leland and Jane Stanford snubbed by the president of Harvard University? Did Leland Jr. attend Harvard before his death in an accident?
https://library.stanford.edu/spc/faq#snubbed

Carduus thistle: MIT/Harvard have one STEM innovation ethos (offering Bach., PhD, law & MD degrees) & Stanford has another-In what ways can WUaS complement and converse with these?, Harvard Law thinks big, MIT Press too