Friday, November 8, 2024

Note from an educational institution under siege



 

16 comments:

  1. Thank you, Professor P, for continuing to model and inspire strong, honest academic skills and practices. We desperately need them to contend with the lazy and unserious habits that seem to pervade so much of our culture at this time.

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    1. While commendable, one might as well piss into the wind. What passes for K-12 education has produced three, maybe four, generations of useful idiots.

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  2. Chin up, head down! (:

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    1. "Nor do they perceive this as a problem." That worries me most of all.

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  4. Heidegger warned that the danger with technology is we lose our essential human capacity for reflection, questioning, and experiencing meaning. Maybe that’s why so many students don’t care about doing the heavy lifting.

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  5. Welcome to the Matrix.

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  6. Voltaire said (in French): "Certainly those who have the right to make you absurd have the right to make you unjust." His translator said: "Truly, those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." which is exactly the point of the larger paragraph as written by Voltaire.

    Head first into the abyss.

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  7. What are the odds that the guilty 10% are those students who find themselves enrolled in higher education at the insistence of their parents?

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  8. What resonated with me the most about this essay is highlighting students don't have the ability to read long complicated materials. Unfortunately I think it's far worse than described. Students simply don't want to read. Many students prefer to watch short videos to learn about complex materials.

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    1. Yes—or now they can tell AI to produce a fake podcast about any text. There have never been so many ways to avoid thinking.

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  9. This is so terribly true. The world we now live in is horrifyingly unsettling place….

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  10. Students: if you want substance and meaning in your life, you kinda have to work for it. Your brain has to make it happen.

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  11. Also: sad thoughts from a pretty typewriter.

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