Fixed-Point Traps: How Exam Systems Stifle Creative Identity Formation

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3 points·WASDAai··4 comments

This reads like crank flyers found under your windshield wiper.

I'm not saying it's false, but rather that the style and jargon are suspect.

I see that too.

My take is that people have been making complaints like this about third-world educational systems, especially India and Brazil, for a long time.

Maybe author would also be interested in the (unstable) fixed-point better known as "the brotherhood of schizos". (because Sz prefer isolation :)

More earnestly.. the essay (fortuitously) elaborates a recent take of mine.. the formal education Great Filter. What if the anti-intellectualism that concerned de Tocqueville, was not a bug, but a feature that confers strategic advantage* over Orientals/"Catholics"? (Which the Brits-- & recidivist western europeans--, if we have to compare with equivalent frutti, do not enjoy)

To meet China (far lower proportion of college vs HS & lower, not to forget Mao's promotion of a healthy aversion to intellectual pursuits) Cantabrigia delenda est!

*Chiefly thanks to the restriction of tools of persuasion to those not enamoured of their own (deserved) intellectual or moral (unearned) standing

This essay explores how exam-centric education systems create fixed-point traps that suppress recursive identity formation. The framing borrows from symbolic systems theory and computational recursion, drawing parallels to self-reference in AI and formal logic. Feedback welcome.

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