“Education is for the student’s benefit, not for the benefit of their future employer, and that students go to school not merely to acquire skills but to develop an entire social and intellectual life: to have something good and to have it forever” @dwaldenwrites
“Tel Aviv isn’t safe”. Imagine if all the borders were shut and Israelis were told to go north. No, south. No, north. No, south. By foot. Carrying all their belongings. Carrying their children. While dodging snipers. As 2000lb bunker bombs were dropping. For 77 years.
Hot take: Students using chatgpt to cheat are just following the system’s logic to its natural conclusion, a system that treats learning as a series of hoops to jump through, not a path to becoming more fully oneself.
It truly is. But students aren’t just destroying their own reading and writing skills. LLMs also rob them of the essential life skill of cheating effectively using smarts and cleverness. They’ve automated cheating! Take the robot away and they can’t even bullshit convincingly.
Greta understood quite quickly it was cringe to proclaim the impending end of the world from a place of global north middle classness without recognizing the world has already ended for many peoples and is currently ending for others