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A fundamental change due to industry: before modern education, it was the teacher's fault if the student didn't learn. You don't tell the local nobleman that
by mnemonicsloth 17y ago
A fundamental change due to industry: before modern education, it was the teacher's fault if the student didn't learn. You don't tell the local nobleman that his son and heir did a C- job. Today, we see education as an opportunity for students to demonstrate how hard they've worked, usually as part of the job-qualification process. Actual learning is still important, but secondary. (Will this be on the test?)
Democratic credentialism is probably better than elitist humanism, but in a niche-and-network economy education has to be applicable and customizable. If it won't fit in a few blog posts, today's internet has a hard time teaching it.
-nb-- Education's medieval structure died in the late 1800s when the ancient religious universities (Oxfords, Harvards) swapped it for the PhD model. Some of them were still pushing the geocentric universe at the time.
The PhD developed to meet the research staffing needs of the German chemical industry.
- pbhjpbhj 17y ago>Some of them were still pushing the geocentric universe at the time. OT: Have you heard of Relativity? What's wrong with choosing an arbitrary reference point to be local.
- mnemonicsloth 17y ago"Some of them had refused to accept a heliocentric solar system before until that time." Are you saying that's unclear? I still find it hard to believe, so I can't tell.
- camccann 17y agoWhat's wrong with choosing an arbitrary reference point to be local. Choosing a non-inertial reference frame would be the problem. Relative velocities (including temporal velocity...) are essentially arbitrary, but acceleration is not; and the accelerating forces experienced by objects in the solar system are overwhelmingly dominated by the sun.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoYes a non-IFoR is a problem but then then pretty much every point we'd want to choose is accelerating relative to us. I'd dispute that for the majority of people the sun's gravity is the dominating force - seems Earth's gravity is pretty dominant to me. But I think I must have had my trolling hat on for this one, sorry.