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.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you, Richard!
ReplyDeleteThank 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.
ReplyDeleteWhile commendable, one might as well piss into the wind. What passes for K-12 education has produced three, maybe four, generations of useful idiots.
DeleteChin up, head down! (:
ReplyDeleteThank you.
ReplyDelete"Nor do they perceive this as a problem." That worries me most of all.
DeleteHeidegger 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.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the Matrix.
ReplyDeleteOr Plato’s Cave.
DeleteVoltaire 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.
ReplyDeleteHead first into the abyss.
What are the odds that the guilty 10% are those students who find themselves enrolled in higher education at the insistence of their parents?
ReplyDeleteWhat 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.
ReplyDeleteYes—or now they can tell AI to produce a fake podcast about any text. There have never been so many ways to avoid thinking.
DeleteThis is so terribly true. The world we now live in is horrifyingly unsettling place….
ReplyDeleteStudents: if you want substance and meaning in your life, you kinda have to work for it. Your brain has to make it happen.
ReplyDeleteAlso: sad thoughts from a pretty typewriter.
ReplyDelete