Education
An academic proposes putting the title of the study without the journal it was published in. The academic journal industry is ludicrous and needs to be stopped.
Where graduating students want to work for 2024
MIT had a history of technology symposium. That means looking at how old tech was used and evolved to predict modern times. One cool speech name.
Eye movement shows how learning is done, a study
Schools need to change everything so universities can have more diverse professors
“Talented” students kept from algebra. We should get rid of early advanced classes entirely
Ed: Uni of Florida
University of Florida strips privileges from faculty to save money
University of Florida President quits after two years in office.
My university used to have an Honors Intro to CS class that combined the entire 100-series into a single term. They got rid of it while I was there because the administration didn't like that the students who took the course tended to do much better in the CS program than those who didn't. That was 20 years ago.
The structure has been rotting for a long time.
That's just sad. Being smart is considered evil in our culture.
They are waiting until fucking 9th grade to start algebra? We were doing that in late 5th/early 6th grade in the dirty fucking swamp South I went to school in. By high school math we were well passed algebra and even geometry, and into trigonometry. With the rest of high school just being pushing those into more and more complex levels for mastery.
Granted, we also never did Calculus beyond acknowledging what it was and dabbling a little but Calc is also the one form of Math that could make anybody just fucking give up and quit if introduced too early.
This isn't even a "its because niggers and illegals are holding them back" because Louisiana public schools are packed with blacks and we still managed. Are Cali kids just that fucking retarded?
For the growing demographics, yes apparently they really are just that retarded. Of course the bureaucrat has to spin it as talent they missed out on somehow, not that they're just harboring an ever growing crop of talentless dregs.
Does he think that education is just an infinite system where you can just show up with a "plan" that turns drooling imbeciles into rocket surgeons?
I mean, I know that's what they pretend but its so wild the sheer levels of delusion they operate under.
Huh it is just the old Tabula rasa Idea? That has been around a long time and bureaucrats love it since it makes the equations easier, haha
Leftism has never stopped being on Tabula Rasa, almost all Leftist beliefs require Tabula Rasa. Its how you get to ideas like "Teach to not rape" or "blacks are only violent because environment." And it works for them because Lefties are such NPCs that they just as soon be blank slates.
Also, the dumbing down has been going on a long time. I had it weird in that by the end of elementary school, I had already started on algebra, but the statewide stuff ratcheted back, and I didn't learn anything new until high school. Ended up taking the year-long Algebra IA/IB/II course and geometry and then Statistics at the local college for my final math credit.
This is a pattern you see crop up all over the place. Most obviously in the "studies" which claim that human brains don't "fully" develop until age 25.
One conclusion (the mainstream leftist one) is that this means that you shouldn't grant humans full agency until age 25.
The other is that human brains develop as quickly as their environment requires them to, they haven't needed to develop as quickly as they needed to in the past; and if you want them to develop faster you need to incentivize them to (ie. push people harder, earlier).
Which (if any) is the correct conclusion? I doubt anyone would fund the study to prove one over the other (assuming the experiment would even pass an ethics review board, which I doubt it would). But out of sheer necessity throughout most of human history we've had to push our young pretty hard out of sheer necessity, and it's only the past hundred years or so we haven't. I think the results speak for themselves.
This is the general theme it seems biology and evolution leads us to believe. Humans don't need to be instantly able to walk and run like most animals, so we can pop out with half formed skulls and giant brains that need to learn basic functions for years. And as we increased the human comfort level, that time frame to reach "capable" got further and further out because it wasn't needed.
I think you can even see it at play in localized areas. Its probably one reason why black teens are far more physically developed and adult in appearance than white counterparts in general, because their environment is much more demanding of physical prowess.
Same with Lefties thinking women in their 20s aren't fully adults. They probably aren't because they have such a privileged protected life their body's didn't need to rush and left them just crawling slowly through maturity. Mentally at least, its almost certain they sexually matured super early because our decadent society pushes that hard too.
Its an interesting dilemma. Because you don't want to push kids too early and stunt their ability to think and reason, but if you go too late then the ravages of aging give them little time to achieve.
Completely agreed, except I don't think the left really believes in evolution. They claimed to 20 years ago because it undermined the Christians of the day, but they don't really act as though they believe it's true.
The left likes to say "'is' does not imply 'ought'", but if you claim to be a secular materialist then "is" is the reference point for the secular, material world; and you can only question that so many times before your claim to secular materialism may seriously be called into question.
I don't think most people do, because it undermines a lot of principles across the board to truly believe in it. Plenty will believe in it vaguely, and pay lipservice to it, but to actually grapple with its full extent is far too heavy for many.
The very notion that most of our traits and ability is determined from the circumstances of our birth and genes is a painful realization for many, as most of us want to believe in the ability to seize our destiny and grow greater than our station. We can to some extent, but only in certain restrictive avenues.
You need to add this one to the list. It has been born out as accurate, in my experience: "The Coddling of the American Mind" https://archive.is/SJTzH
I will add it to the next list.
Thanks man.