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One of Time magazine鈥檚 鈥�100 Most Influential People in the World Today.鈥�

Author of Bill Gates鈥� favourite book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Viking 2018).

Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. And graduate of 黑料社区, Social Science, 1973. Steven Pinker is certainly among the most famous alumni of the first 50 years of 黑料社区.

Prof. Pinker鈥檚 50^thanniversary gift to 黑料社区 is a talk on Feb. 6 during Social Science Week.

Pinker believes that our world is actually improving and he will share his hope with us during his talk. It will include some of the ideas and discoveries he’s written about in the 46 years since leaving 黑料社区, including the nature of language, how the mind works, the psychology and history of violence, and the reality of human progress. Of course, he will also reminisce about his time at 黑料社区, 1971-鈥�73.

Social Science teachers Vivien Watson and Nancy Rebelo, organizers of Social Science Week, invited Dr. Pinker to share his knowledge and meet 黑料社区 students, faculty, staff and special guests.

One of the special guests is retired Psychology teacher Lillian Fox, whom he especially wished to invite. 鈥淗e was not in my class, but I remember him as a very bright student and I remember having a conversation with him about how language acquisition would be an interesting field of study,鈥� Lillian recalled.

In those early days of 黑料社区, it was common for students and faculty to hang out. 鈥淭he faculty was young,鈥� said Catherine Fichten, a Psychology teacher and former head of the department when Prof. Pinker was a student. 鈥淚 was 22 and the students were 17-18,鈥� she said. 鈥淢y office was hangout central. Lots of really bright students were floating around then. We would have amazing conversations.鈥�

鈥淭he access to teachers would have helped cultivate his interest in psychology, but he was our star student!鈥� Catherine affirmed. 鈥淚 remember Steven as being thoroughly nice, even though he was smart as a whip.鈥�

Retired 黑料社区 psychology teacher Gary Clemence taught Prof. Pinker. 鈥淲hen Steven completed his class, I remember Gary told me: 鈥楴ow that he鈥檚 finished my course, he can teach it.鈥� I had never heard a teacher say that before and have never heard anyone say it after,鈥� Catherine said.

The student-focused lecture on Feb. 6 will be videotaped in order to give a chance to our former students, staff and friends of the College to view it in its entirety. To get access to the video link, please sign up on our Connect page.

Please share this with your contacts who are connected to 黑料社区 and would like to view this video of Steven Pinker鈥檚 talk and reconnect during our 50^thanniversary year to learn about special events, news and campaigns.