I am living Harvard's Immersion Experience Program (IXP)

I am preparing a course for South America and the Harvard Business School's Immersion Experience Program (IXP) progam was mentioned. The idea seems to take the students on a "working trip" to provide them an intense learning experience in the real life. Ha! If so am on a century long learning trip, immersed in an unrelenting, compulsive violent learning experience. The very first day we arrived in Vienna, penniless refugees as we were, my loving parents took me to school, abandoning me there without a word of German and without a friend. Immersed in that real life learning esperience, I did learn in fact German and math in German. A very good report on a real life "extreme" learning experience is Menachem Begin's White Nights, where he describes his gulag experience with a his pedantic, pedagogic style. Begin had a very organized mind, while in the Pechora lager, he collected information, organized it and arrived at conclusions. For example he reasons why, on the basis of what he saw with his own eyes, the Soviet regime was doomed to collapse soon. Which it did.

All my life I am thrown (or throw myself) into impossible situations where I have to learn fast to survive or I am dead. Financially, physically dead. In fact, I too am applying Harvard's pedagogical methods to my poor daughters: I send them out into the world without a shekel but with one message: swim or sink. They do learn real fast. I dont think that Harvard is hard enough to fully apply this method to its paying clients.