2.5 hour-long Zoom meeting where a history professor told 50+ freshmen the purpose of education was to become more powerful so as to more effectively enact desired political goals, and let me tell you: it’s not every day that you encounter a real-life Plato interlocutor
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UChicago students were required to sit through 3+ hours of orientation videos tonight about the aim of education, and most of it was about activism, self-care, and neuroscience
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These are the kinds of conclusions you arrive at when you try to talk about education but deny the existence of the soul
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And here's the complete opposite sentiment, from the same lecture series 18 years ago: https://college.uchicago.edu/student-life/aims-education-address-2002-andrew-abbott …pic.twitter.com/fNzFvyJyIN
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interesting hmmm
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