If you're using AI to write essays, something everyone was capable of doing until the day before yesterday, I think less of you as a person. Surrendering your mental abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and you should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.
New Washington Post editorial: All schools should go phone free. Cites stunning stat that 97% of teens say they use their phones during school hours, esp. for TikTok. Phones are kryptonite for learning.
Parents: please send the editorial to school admins
https://t.co/t6eAEojEfd
Lewis and Tolkien both often defended the "Escapism" of getting lost in fantasy stories.
They believed escaping from fallen reality into something closer to what we long for is not necessarily a bad thing, but has a way of working in us to make us more like we want to be.
Ethan Hawke is one of those rare artists who's able to speak profoundly about how art fits into the human experience while sounding like a salt-of-the-earth regular and humble guy and I really love that.
“The most reliable cure for confirmation bias is interaction with people who don’t share your beliefs. They confront you with counterevidence and counterargument.”John Stuart Mill said, ‘He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that,’”https://t.co/dfn5D7lseT
Every great literature has always been allegorical, allegorical of some view of the whole universe. The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, the Odyssey because all life is a journey, the Book of Job because all life is a riddle.
@StuckIn48403550 And it only gets harder to make learning fun as their “fun” becomes more and more mind numbingly stupid. The chasm between using their brain and the uploaded amusement of gaming gets wider and wider. But, you know, make learning fun!