We need to bring back intellectual elitism.
Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a chat gpt AI subscription.
It's important to learn math not because you may need to do long division as an adult, but because it promotes rigorous thinking. IMO, history and causal inference are among the most important subjects a young person can study — math being central to the second.
A significant problem in public discourse right now is people's inability to critically evaluate causal claims (e.g., vaccines cause autism, deporting immigrants will solve the housing crisis, etc.). The less able people are to critically evaluate causal claims, the worse our democracy functions because people can be preyed upon for votes. You should promote anything that improves rigorous thinking, even if it doesn't have market value. In fact, we should stop thinking of education only in the context of what improves the economy.
IMO, this is distinct from knowing your own address (which Huang can avoid because he's wealthy). Memorizing facts like this may or may not be important, but it's distinct from rigorous thinking.
We’re so deep in anti-intellectualism that now we think PHARMACISTS “end up working in a grocery store,” and I want us to please change course.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD…
fun part of moving is discovering I own every item! every single item. if it’s an item a person can own, I own it. so I don’t need a job anymore! jobs give you money to buy items and I already own, as I stated, every single item
See what these Hannah-Jones types do… they just generate a bunch of a useless bullshit back and forth. Their entire income is bullshit back and forth 😂😂 @Jenifa_0_Jenny
When I interview, I go completely conservative. Interview bun & pearls. I’m getting the job. I’m eliminating my opportunities to miss. Im not trying to fight the power, I’m fighting poverty tf
Equal in dignity and worth yes, but not equals in responsibility and (moral) accountability. We’re the adults, they are children. There’s still a necessary distinction between the two and we must be careful not to erase it. It’s in both parties’ interests that it remains defined.
The real problem with the teacher/classroom discussions is so many ppl have such arrested development.
Yall are 9th graders mentally and spiritually so you react to teachers and class rules like an angsty hormonal teen instead of the grown adult that you are 😭
That vid of the fake chef substitute teaching an empty classroom made me think…
The crazy people who back in the day we used to say “don’t pay him/her no mind” about, and they most likely became an afterthought at best… NOW have platforms and you see them one way or another…
“It’s my right to feel this way!” No it’s your capability to feel this way. You actually have no right to feel this way at all and more people need to be told that