The 'education bubble' is not merely a financial crisis; it is a moral crisis
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Similarly interesting is that despite being only an hour old, having 43 points and being on the front page at my time of writing this post, this post was explicitly removed.
Do you think that when one conjures the phrase "dark times ahead", those who experience those dark times understand that they live in the dark times, or are they repeating the phrase to others in the belief that despite their misery, things could be worse?
If these attacks succeed, education is on its way to moral bankruptcy.
Not founding all things for everyone does not imply moral bankruptcy.
Unfortunately the same institution is today spending too much time and energy on various socio-political abstractions, hence it is not being able to offer the same opportunities for scientific exploration I enjoyed during my time there to the new generation.
From my experience, the pinnacle of education was around the end of the cold war here in the West, then it started going downhill once we lacked a properly defined adversary and started to look for enemies and oppressors in our own midst.
With stuff like Instagram it's the norm that people mime meaningless things, just mindlessly repeating unexamined ideas (blackout is a great example).
It's gobsmacking to me when I see how many educated (liberal arts educated friends, no less) people passing around these conversation guide infographics...as though they can't express original ideas, hold a conversation, etc.
It's critical that people are brave enough to recognize the obvious illiberal attitudes circulating and criticize them for the nonsense they are.
> The SAT is often criticized, but the Advanced Placement system is psychologically more insidious: distorting learning incentives in high school, and training keener students to think of college in terms of “completing requirements.” Students who are good at something shouldn’t be treated as exempt from learning, but encouraged to venture farther.