http://www.unz.com/isteve/who-needs-academic-freedom-anymore-when-you-have-power/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=who-needs-academic-freedom-anymore-when-you-have-powerWho needs academic freedom when you have power
Source date (UTC): 2015-05-18 09:41:00 UTC
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Changing My Mind on Education
Reading/Writing: Greek, Latin, English, Programming – the language of machines.
Testimony/Speaking: Observation, Testimony, Grammar, Rhetoric, Logic
The Record of Man: Science, Technologies, Politics, Wars, Arts, Myths. (Taught as history)
Recording: Arithmetic, Accounting, Economics (Taught as History)
Solving: Algebra, Geometry/Trigonometry, Statistics (calculus). (Taught as History)
Write every day.(1 hour) Plan your day. Review your day.
Read every day (1 hour).
Exercise every day (2 hours)
Start working as early in life as its possible to find work.
Un-invent childhood.
Source date (UTC): 2015-05-13 09:27:00 UTC
My @Quora answer to Why are American people so stupid? http://qr.ae/0fVUy
Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 15:16:59 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/597782458692677633
MORE ON GEOGRAPHIC IGNORANCE
Interesting offline conversation about american ignorance. Yes, we are ignorant. But ignorance is a geographic necessity. Yes we are ignorant of our policies. But then, we have the best disinformation system in the world making the truth opaque to us. Yes we are ignorant, because we have a tragic education system that values eliminating the problem of diversity that preserves the political system over the education of a labor force capable of competing in a post-european world.
Our geographic ignorance is forgivable – it’s not valuable. Our policy ignorance is something that should make us angry – it is valuable. Our educational ignorance is something that should cause us to revolt – it’s necessary for our survival.
What we have that no one else has is total saturation in entrepreneurship, innovation, the scientific method, and heroism.
This is enough to allow the upper classes to compete against the rest of the world, but it is not enough to allow our middle forces and labor forces to compete against the rest of the world.
We need better education or we need to start impaling everyone in the administration of public education on spikes until we run out of bodies. I’ve been to both the Northwest and Canada. We’re never gonna run out of spikes.
Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 11:41:00 UTC
Participating in one of Ayelam’s threads with a lot of people from Ghana, and learning more than I can from any number of books, papers and journals. Sort of like debating online with people from different cultures. Amazing. It is so hard NOT to be clueless. But what’s interesting is the quality of their conversation. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something is very ‘right’ about it. Lacking knowledge maybe but remarkably free of ‘ancestral error’. Yes….. that’s it. That’s what it is. Interesting..
I love humans.
Source date (UTC): 2015-05-08 08:50:00 UTC
http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2015/04/value-added-college-rankings.htmlMath and earnings.
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-29 12:51:00 UTC
—“In his philosophy of writing history, Barzun emphasized the role of storytelling over the use of academic jargon and detached analysis. He concluded in From Dawn to Decadence that “history cannot be a science; it is the very opposite, in that its interest resides in the particulars.”—Jaques Barzun
Source date (UTC): 2015-04-21 00:56:00 UTC
(good arguments for your use.)
Myths About Attending College Debunked[C]hristopher, This self-serving post is disingenuous at best. As far as we know, right now, students learn almost nothing in university that is used in life. University largely performs a filtering and indoctrination service. So students are filtered out of the workforce by extremely expensive procedural gymnastics. They are not taught anything that helps them in the workforce. They are only taught the work discipline that was not provided to them in public k-12. We can test this argument fairly easily by employment and productivity comparisons of other northern European education systems and ours – which expensively educate far fewer, but impose far greater discipline in k-12. The empirical and honest analysis, which has been provided by economists for years now, is to (a) perform output rankings of colleges by the performance of students, giving no weight to capital resources, (b) to measure how much of the revenue capture is devoted to undergraduates and teaching professors, versus how much of the revenue is spent on dead weight (administration), profiteering (the physical plant and endowment), and graduate programs (profiteering). (c) how much retention there is of the freshman class through graduation(test of honesty rather than entrapment). (d) how much is diverted for publicity and status purposes (sports). The empirical test of education is this: If (1)overhead was capped at 15%, and (2) all but an additional 10% was required to stay within the departments that performed the teaching, and (3) if teaching and research departments were separated, and (4) if graduate programs had to be self-funding, and (5) if universities were only able to collect a percentage of income from their graduates for a period of 30 years, and so if graduates could not earn, then universities could not collect income, then what would universities teach, and how would they teach instead? That is the reform that is required. As far as we know, educational institutions since at least 1963 have provided a means of privatizing public wealth that parents could have saved for their retirements, and we have now a generation about to retire that has been sold a defective product without warranty, at the expense of their retirements, for no marginal increase in the employability of their offspring. This is era has been one of the most massive misappropriations of public wealth in western history – equal to that of the church’s selling of indulgences, and the reason for the protestant reformation against the church. The military industrial complex at very least, is a net break even for Americans because of the petro-dollar, and the regulatory capture we impose on world politics, finance and trade. But the academy literally sells indulgences: fraudulent, underperforming products without warranty, insulated from claims against warranty by the state, and the outcome of which produce seriously damaging externalities for our economy, culture, and civilization. Those are the facts. The boomer-generation’s Academy has not only been a bastion of pseudoscience in the social sciences, instituted a permanent degradation of the western canon, and has been a bastion of financial privatization on a scale we have not seen since the late middle ages. We should note that all of the sources you quote are paid interests, and that none of the sources you list are independent economists specializing in education, nor advocates of education reform. We are conservatives. We are supposed to be the people that tell the truth. Postmodern deceits, pseudoscience, statistical deception, propagandism, and reality-by-chanting are tactics of, and mastered by, the left. There is no room in conservatism (aristocracy) for foolery and deceit. Civilization is too important a craft to be left to the foolish and corrupt. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine.