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See here's the thing, ragging on the education system is so overdone, such an easy target, such a bullshit "I wasn't the best so it didn't matter anyway" thing,

by jff 17y ago

See here's the thing, ragging on the education system is so overdone, such an easy target, such a bullshit "I wasn't the best so it didn't matter anyway" thing, that as soon as somebody does it in these inevitable articles, I tune out. Seriously, every time somebody in one of these articles tries to get their pseudo-philosophical think on about education or achievement or whatever, they dive straight for AND OF COURSE WE ALL KNOW SCHOOL IS SO MEANINGLESS FNAR FNAR.

Eliezer 17y ago
Hold on, I'm not sure that's fair. Yes, everyone knows that school is insane, marijuana is safer than alcohol, you shouldn't have different tax treatment for corporate and individual health insurance, et cetera et cetera EXCEPT WE DON'T ALL KNOW THAT AND THEY'RE STILL DOING IT.
- derefr 17y ago
  Perhaps we can just make an Encyclopedia of Common-yet-Dangerous Misconceptions, word it and print it up to look, and have the status cues of, a religious text (but also with convincing info-graphics and cites), and distribute them like phonebooks door-to-door?
  - Enra2 17y ago
    "Let's call the product Revipedia. The purpose of Revipedia is to be like Wikipedia, except that it serves as a reliable source on all topics, no matter how technical or controversial, and no matter how detached from reality the centrist mainstream may be." http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/01/revipedia-how-to-defeat-us-government.html http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/01/reviped...