Tag: experiential education
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Excellent point.
Somebody on substack made a STRONG point about schools failing to prepare us for life. I hadn’t thought about this failure before. If art classes included drafting, they would have helped future architects and designers and engineers. I was inclined toward architecture. When I visited neighbors or friends, I didn’t waste time in boring old…
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Good woke, reprinted
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = REPRINT FROM 2019: This academic movement is more important and more valid than it sounds. First, how it sounds: = = = = = START QUOTE: Since apartheid ended in 1994, South Africa’s universities have struggled to transform themselves, leading to escalating student protests…
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General Delivery
Our idiot “mayor” and grotesque brainless “council” have passed a new “law” telling businesses to avoid asking for addresses on new employees. Supposedly this will make it easier to hire the homeless. I doubt it. First reaction: WOKE SHIT! Second reaction: Well, like much of the woke shit in education, this is actually a return…
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Industrially repeated
This argument has been industrially repeated for decades. It makes superficial sense but there are flaws in the assumptions and facts. = = = = = START QUOTE: Industrialization explicitly rewarded compliance, conformity, and disciplined repetition. Schools were designed to produce workers who fit neatly into that mold, treating variation as a flaw instead of…
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Carney is FDR.
I started the previous item intending to introduce this topic but then skidded off into my usual Ford vs Wall Street rant. The rant is relevant to current news, so I’ll leave it there and try again. Capital is MONEY or PROPERTY that serves to start or expand a business. Property includes land, buildings, tools,…
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Pointless library rant
The fake pro-woke and anti-woke warriors are always battling about school libraries. It’s absurd. School libraries were never meant to be a general reference source, or a place to find enjoyable vacation reading. Public libraries are supposed to carry a broad range of subjects and fiction, serious or non-serious. Bookstores and newsstands carry less serious…
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How to do empathy
Journalists have zero empathy, can’t grasp the needs and desires of a reader who doesn’t belong to the same caste and clique. Here’s a beautiful example of understanding how a stranger thinks! Joke seen on Quora: Two statues, a male and female, stood in Central Park for 50 years. One day a genie came along…
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What does it mean?
This recent upload at Periscope Films is pushing college education, mostly aimed at law school and police careers. It was meant to be shown in high school classes. Key statement: “25 years ago, only 1 out of 12 high school students went on to college. Today, 1 out of 3 go on to college. What…
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Did science as entertainment continue?
Yesterday’s mention of symphonies that wear out the bass drum and the eardrum with endlessly hammered final movements reminded me of Peter Schickele’s classical parodies. Schickele mainly focused on the finicky excesses of Baroque Purists. I was a finicky Baroque Purist, so I appreciated his work. This led to a broader thought about science as…
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Reprint again on Russian tech
Apparently China has busted our idiotic monopoly on job-destroying AI, which might bust the AI stock bubble. The bubble was bound to pop anyway, and some observers thought it would pop soon. All stock bubbles pop when the inflators want to cash out. Of course the Chinese effort might not live up to its claims;…
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Math teacher’s joke
Seen on Quora. A math teacher met one of his former students in a parking lot. The student parked his Lamborghini next to the teacher’s old Chevy. The surprised teacher said to him: “How can you own a car like that? You were a lousy student.” The ex-student replied: “You see this office building? I…
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If this is a war, I’m on the other side
Defending Deepstate indoctrination in the worst way: = = = = = START QUOTE: There is a major war on the humanities and any form of multidisciplinary thinking and human formation, if you haven’t noticed in the past 24 hours—advocates of the kind of lame, siloed educational system that manufactures STEM students on assembly lines…
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Work, not logic
Perfect example of the standard “conservative” and Catholic stupidity about education. “Kids should be taught basic epistemology and logic in primary school before they get access to the Internet”. Precisely wrong. Tyrants LOVE logic and philosophy. The JOB of philosophy is to help tyrants lie and kill. Logic happily defends all sorts of destructive shit.…
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Lazy is best.
Following on this item and this item on the importance of MECHANICAL government. = = = = = Good businesses and good rulers are LAZY as well as mechanical. The two go together. When you make a process mechanical it’s affordable and easy to use. When everything is custom-made and ’boutique’, everything is expensive and…
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New thought on universities
An article on men losing interest in universities pulled my attention back to one of my basic themes. Universities were NEVER meant for everyone. They arose from two parallel institutions, the monastery or seminary for priests, and the finishing school for aristocrats. Both have the same function. Both refine and certify elites, religious or secular.…
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