On Monday 21 November 2022 23:01:34 deloptes wrote:
gene heskett wrote:
I'm glad I retired 20 years ago. Somebody else can deal with the idiots now.
this is taking pandemic dimensions all over the globe and is likely to accelerate in the future (especially in the west). Education is broken from the kinder garden to the university. We were laughing few years ago that the movie "Idiocracy" is not a fiction but is the now, however we did not expected to have the future so fast arriving to reality. It is hopeless!
Agreed. The depth of ignorance is shocking. People conflate formal schooling (the goal of which is to get a degree) with education (which has no end).
The idea of a liberal education originally meant something more like free-ranging, independent inquiry. Now *liberal* is taken to be a political stance, opposed to *conservative*; thus some people (won't name names) would like to purge liberals from education and to fill universities with dunces and butt-kissers whose only qualifications are loyalty to Big Brother and the official party line.
Ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery.
Bill