@DavidDeutschOxf@rolandkuhn@DouglasCarswell Yes. Educational institutions should be unapologetically rational. Political disagreements often stem from deeper philosophical differences, so this will inevitably align with some positions more than others. I agree that teachers shouldn't reveal their personal political views.
@DavidDeutschOxf@rolandkuhn@DouglasCarswell For example, teaching an accurate history of the Israel/Palestine conflict would currently be controversial across political parties, yet it is of huge importance.
@DavidDeutschOxf@rolandkuhn@DouglasCarswell The difficulty is that many people now regard claims to objectivity or rationality as political positions in their own right. If so, how can a teacher avoid signalling a political stance?
@DavidDeutschOxf@MaxNordau Similarly I’ve had people tell me they think X is happening because their “trusted” news source says so. They would do well to read On the Sources of Knowledge and of Ignorance.
@AntSpeaks@DavidDeutschOxf This is a strange aspect of the Pattern.
It doesn’t require intent. The outcome still legitimises harm to Jews as Jews. Disturbingly, rational scrutiny breaks down enough for an obvious historical and moral error to pass through multiple layers of review unnoticed.
@KofGondor @DavidDeutschOxf@AntigoneJournal I disagree that it’s a core aim. I see education primarily as the exchange and explanation of ideas. A university lecturer’s goal typically isn’t to shape behaviour, but to help students understand and criticise explanations — and I think school education should aim at the same.
@DavidDeutschOxf@AntigoneJournal Yes. There also seems to be an underlying view that education is about shaping behaviour — turning creative people into desk-sitters who regurgitate information.
@DavidDeutschOxf@AntigoneJournal Strange. Does this stem from an obsession with testing—where the tests really end up measuring how good they are at subjugating students?
@hal_incandenza4@DavidDeutschOxf@JensHonack@nivi They’re abstract, but the limits they reveal—like the undecidability of halting—apply to physical computers too. So the unpredictability isn’t just mathematical; it has real-world consequences.
@DariusRRobson@JensHonack@nivi Yes I'm sure the unpredictability of the growth of knowledge is connected with that of Turing machines. And AGIs are associated with a class of Turing machines. But they're not the same. E.g. halting is about what happens in the asymptotic future. Creativity is finite.
Postmodernism has taken a deep truth from Popperian epistemology (namely experience is theory-laden and needs to be criticised), misunderstood it, and used it to justify the opposite (experience is infallible and mustn't be criticised).