The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught and not educated enough to question what they have been taught.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I remember spending hours on end in the school library. Today, I can pickup my tablet or smartphone and access materials that would not have been available. The Information Age gave modern educators and students a tremendous advantage over their predecessors.
There are limits. A poor teacher can hinder a student. But a good student can overcome this. However, even the greatest teacher cannot overcome the limitations of a poor student.
It is a wonderful time in history for both teachers and students.
TXLerins
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Feb 2, 2023
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I suspect that academia operates along the lines of 'operant conditioning' (carrot and stick) as BF Skinner renamed it. Revealed knowledge passed down and regurgitated in examinations with very little room for raising questions. However, once you have got the chair at a university you may begin to express your own thoughts in a somewhat restricted manner.
ASTRALMAX
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Feb 1, 2023
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The further problem is, who is it that's been teaching them?
Paul4747
Level 8
Feb 1, 2023
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Perhaps our whole education systems ? I just posted above. "I seem to remember Henry D. Thoreau quoting a version of that. So it must go back to at least the middle of the nineteenth century." Yet I also remember asking a person on this site, if H.D. T. was ever taught in American schools, since in the UK he is regarded as an important American author. The response was that his natural history was taught in a very boring way. Which seems strange because in Europe that is almost forgoten, and only the political and philosophical works are regarded, which are very questioning and challenging to the US economic and social system.
Which makes you wonder if the type of teaching given, has not been normalized, ( Not planned it is not cospiricy. ) to deliberately to put students off reading the challenging stuff.
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