In America the car culture goes so deep they have to land a car on the Moon before they could risk sending astronauts somewhere without a car to drive.
Here's the brutal truth: Most college students aren't really students.
The word student comes from Latin words meaning someone who applies himself with focused intensity and painstaking effort.
Does that sound like the average college kid?
The average college "student" spends less than two hours a day on schoolwork. Two-thirds admit they're willing to cheat rather than put in the effort. At Ivy colleges, 80% of all grades are A-minus or above. Does that sound intense or painstaking?
Here's another uncomfortable truth: most so-called "students" are perfectly content with this. They'll happily go into debt, or let their parents foot the $80,000-a-year bill, for glorified daycare with a diploma at the end -- a diploma, by the way, that no longer signals intelligence or ability. Employers know it. "Students" know it.
That's why we started the University of Austin (UATX). We built UATX for those who actually want to learn and be formed. Students who think education should involve effort and challenge. Students who are willing to apply themselves with seriousness and purpose.
We don't inflate grades; our average GPA is low by design. We rank students. We reward hard work. Yes, it's demanding.
It's also deeply liberating. We take liberal education seriously, in its original sense: education that liberates the mind from lazy conformity to reigning orthodoxies. Our students engage with the great books and the great minds to wrestle with the timeless questions every human must face: what gives life meaning? what is justice? what makes us human?
We also train them in science, technology, and the hard skills to build, invent, and tackle the real problems facing our country and our civilization.
We realize this isn't for everyone, and certainly not for "students."
But if you're actually a student -- if you crave challenge over comfort, if you want your mind sharpened rather than soothed -- then you deserve more. You deserve an education that honors what you are: someone willing to apply himself with focused intensity and painstaking effort in pursuit of truth.
Read Jefferson's reckoning with slavery. Debate what it would mean to become posthuman. Solve the Monty Hall Problem.
High School Honors. Boston. May 2-3.
@austin_way On the topic, how would you reccomend someone who is outside Alpha implement Edtech?
I am very eager to be able to harness this "new" tech!
@nicdunz I have this same issue sat school...
I have found that talking about AI with someone tells you a lot about who they are as a person.
It is a scary unknown thing for many people not on X..
@VibeMarketer_ I love my WhatsApp chat with Open Claw.
Setting up a notification through my bot to update me when notable features and advancements drop was also a huge game changer.
My laptop is now mostly a solitary creature...
I love the baby robot.
It is an interesting fork from the usual proportions of the humanoid robots popular right now.
This robot appears like I'd be much better suited to cleaning and servicing confined spaces such as air conditioning vents and chimneys.
Keep up the work! ๐ฅ
@Rightanglenews "Creators" who posted fake news having their earnings deducted and redistributed is the type of social justice I expect from Elon's platform.
Hopefully we will see a decerase in fake posts too!
The potential to make no profit or lose your acc on fake posts should continue. ๐ฅ