When you find yourself concerned that “STEM-ification” of education makes people wealthy based on skills alone without indoctrinating them in politics. Sounds like heaven to me.https://twitter.com/joshuamound/status/962790271284072449 …
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Replying to @AustenAllred
hard disagree. half of higher education having been turned into a leftist political inculcation scheme doesn't make ideal the other half being a spiritless materialist jobs training program
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Replying to @alicemazzy @AustenAllred
it's frustrating how many STEM/tech types are completely illiterate when it comes to history, art, culture etc. the ideal of the polymath is a good one and should be promoted
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Replying to @alicemazzy @AustenAllred
this is of course complicated by the fact that there are so many leftist commentators shouting "tech people need to learn about xyz subjects!!" which is...
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Replying to @alicemazzy @AustenAllred
...well understood as code for "submit to our belief system and do what we say"
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Sure, I guess I just don’t view our education sustem as the only way that can/should happen
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Replying to @AustenAllred
I agree with you on that on a personal level, being a notorious school-disliker myself
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Replying to @alicemazzy @AustenAllred
but in the general case I think that the majority do generally need to be told what to think, what has value to study, etc
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and it displeases me that the complementary path to "learn art history and praise mao" being promoted lately is "get good at numbers things and ignore everything else"
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