Philosophy is an obvious counter to that claim. It's hard to see how anyone could major in a humanities and not think, even with LLMs. But perhaps the problem is thinking that requiring everyone to take a sampling of intro humanities courses will force them to think instead of just getting by.

> we aren't allowed to fail students so they see no reason to study.

But that wasn't the issue previously for a majority of this professor's 30 years teaching, it's something that changed recently.

I pulled out trend lines of capability and made projections from this, and easily avoided the red meat of testing and humanities.

They don’t have a solution, because it’s a system level issue - well beyond what teachers, who are already underfunded, can do.

This is the alarm bell being rung.