Just a quick post here — examples abound.<\/p>\n
Never has it been more true than now that those who can do so, and those who cannot teach instead.\u00a0 And one of the problems we face in Western Culture these days is an undeserved elevation of the teaching types to positions of power.\u00a0 Professorial sorts should almost always be denied positions of power, and that includes power over educational institutions.<\/p>\n
The amount of information available on YouTube, WikiPedia, and all around this great big web (and the internet in general for non-web assets) puts academia to shame.\u00a0 The fact that you have to wade through a lot of nonsense to get to the good sense makes it more an asset than the University.\u00a0 In University, students are not taught to exercise selective criteria.\u00a0 They are indoctrinated into the greatest argument from authority — that the University said it.\u00a0 In fact, to a great degree, university students are taught not to<\/em> exercise selectivity, which is more pernicious than merely not being taught to be selective.<\/p>\n University-imposed thought police dicta such as respecting all points of view mean that the critical faculty must be checked at the door.\u00a0 Thank Heaven for the internet!\u00a0 On the internet, nobody knows<\/a> you’re a dog.\u00a0 Your words are evaluated for their content and nothing else.\u00a0 You’re not the professor, you’re not the triple-diversity sweepstakes ringer, and you’re not the white male oppressor who must be ignored.\u00a0 *You* as such, do not exist — only your words.\u00a0 Obviously, you can make some (or all) of these status markers visible, and of course, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook all know who you are, in ways that your ISP doesn’t even know.\u00a0 But that’s different.<\/p>\n I have been rummaging around through corners of the web which I haven’t seen in years, and you know what?\u00a0 Some of them have filled up with thoughtful communities.\u00a0 They swear.\u00a0 They make politically incorrect jokes.\u00a0 And they just crush the university-approved content of the modern stapled mind with facts, reason, examples, and common appeals to what we all know is true.<\/p>\n Just because a university says that a particular premise should be examined, this does not make it false.\u00a0 Treating that premise as false is just committing the same error as treating it true, but contrary to the evidence of long observation!\u00a0 Treating the premise as suspect is fair, but it is not fair to question all conclusion stemming from that premise when those conclusions have held up against the harsh justice of time.<\/p>\n Anyway.\u00a0 I said this would be a quick post.\u00a0 Go find your own examples.\u00a0 That’s what the web is here for.\u00a0 And take your mind back from the university thought police.<\/p>\n Just a quick post here — examples abound.<\/p>\n Never has it been more true than now that those who can do so, and those who cannot teach instead.\u00a0 And one of the problems we face in Western Culture these days is an undeserved elevation of the teaching types to positions of power.\u00a0 Professorial sorts should almost always be denied positions of power, and that includes power over educational institutions.<\/p>\n The amount of information available on YouTube, WikiPedia, and all around this great big web (and the internet in general for non-web assets) puts academia to shame.\u00a0 The fact that you have to wade through a lot of nonsense to get to the good sense makes it more an asset than the University.\u00a0 In University, students are not taught … Continue reading