- this is the whole ballgame imo. the fact that students can feel like their entire future depends on doing well on a paper doesn’t incentivize learning; it incentivizes doing well on the paper. goes double when those futures depend on having a degree
- If a degree is just a piece of paper you need to get a desirable, good-paying job, someone invents a machine that can do it for you, and the notion that you might go to college to develop your mind for its own, non-remunerative sake is a punch line and an elite privilege, why not use the machine?
- anyway, bsky.app/profile/laur...
- School teaches us how to pass tests and give the right answer. I find it makes people uncomfortable when mistakes are made. Mistakes are seen as failures and a reason to give up. Mistakes are part of the process of learning, and school punishes mistakes.
- I remember venting to my dad that a class I had to take for my major was really frustrating bc the material we had to learn was essentially pointless bc nobody did what we were learning in the working world. He told me a degree just tells an employer you can put up with BS. I think about that a lot
- chatGPT is grant writing’s final boss
