Thank you for linking to https://www.chronicle.com/article/we-asked-for-it. It matches with my experiences of modern universities very well. There's been some atrocious leftist behavior by institutions and professors that helps *no one*, and this is motivating funding loss, and various good things are going to be hit by this if it happens. I'm glad people on the institution side are talking about it at all.
(Personal anecdata: I have attended a genetics class at a "Public Ivy" which told me that "Skin color is not associated with other aspects of a person's appearance", when anyone's eyes can tell them that hair and eye color have various correlations with skin tone. I've also attended a botany class there where the professor brought in guest speakers who discussed quantum woo and heart EM fields and shared personal anecdotes about experiencing miracles.)
Parentification sounds like the opposite end of the spectrum to infantilisation. Until we can find a good balance, it sounds like the much lesser evil?
Theory of one young (early 20's) person regarding books:
Young people do not "care" about education anymore, and why should they?
There were always people in school who didn't want to be there, but they were probably scolded a lot harder about it than they are now.
Then school and especially university used to be *the* place to go if you're naturally interested in academics, and thirsty for knowledge. There probably used to be many interested kids like this in every class, that teachers loved to teach. Now, these kids are getting their knowledge thirst more than satiated by the internet, and they sleep through classes and gamify them to do the minimum that whatever grade they want requires. Because why shouldn't they? Instead of learning in a harsh and stressful environment where you're tired, you learn at your own pace online.
People are just acting in their rational self interest.
Given the level of fraud discovered the last few years in life sciences, I no longer believe in explanations that bad science is over there in some other school or department.
The replication crisis has indeed hit "proper" subjects like medicine. Some of them have learnt from this. Education schools, as opposed to cognitive psychologists, still have a long way to go. I guess the world feels more comfortable if you can just read about Growth Mindset again and again?
Thank you for linking to https://www.chronicle.com/article/we-asked-for-it. It matches with my experiences of modern universities very well. There's been some atrocious leftist behavior by institutions and professors that helps *no one*, and this is motivating funding loss, and various good things are going to be hit by this if it happens. I'm glad people on the institution side are talking about it at all.
(Personal anecdata: I have attended a genetics class at a "Public Ivy" which told me that "Skin color is not associated with other aspects of a person's appearance", when anyone's eyes can tell them that hair and eye color have various correlations with skin tone. I've also attended a botany class there where the professor brought in guest speakers who discussed quantum woo and heart EM fields and shared personal anecdotes about experiencing miracles.)
Parentification sounds like the opposite end of the spectrum to infantilisation. Until we can find a good balance, it sounds like the much lesser evil?
Theory of one young (early 20's) person regarding books:
Young people do not "care" about education anymore, and why should they?
There were always people in school who didn't want to be there, but they were probably scolded a lot harder about it than they are now.
Then school and especially university used to be *the* place to go if you're naturally interested in academics, and thirsty for knowledge. There probably used to be many interested kids like this in every class, that teachers loved to teach. Now, these kids are getting their knowledge thirst more than satiated by the internet, and they sleep through classes and gamify them to do the minimum that whatever grade they want requires. Because why shouldn't they? Instead of learning in a harsh and stressful environment where you're tired, you learn at your own pace online.
People are just acting in their rational self interest.
I think the Daoism link goes to the wrong post.
The "bad at reading books" link is broken
Your link to the article in The Atlantic is broken.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-elite-college-students-who-cant-read-books/679945/
Gosh, the stories of encounters with Chinese psychiatrists have left me bummed out!
Given the level of fraud discovered the last few years in life sciences, I no longer believe in explanations that bad science is over there in some other school or department.
The replication crisis has indeed hit "proper" subjects like medicine. Some of them have learnt from this. Education schools, as opposed to cognitive psychologists, still have a long way to go. I guess the world feels more comfortable if you can just read about Growth Mindset again and again?