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Good point. It should also tell us about the US's own highly bureaucratic, test driven educational culture. http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/03/anti-intellec
by calibraxis 10y ago
Good point. It should also tell us about the US's own highly bureaucratic, test driven educational culture. http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/03/anti-intellectualism-terrorism-and-elections-in-contemporary-education-a-discussion-with-noam-chomsky/ http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/03/anti-intellectualism-...
Dan Falcone: Yeah, I’ve seen this type of thinking before. The school that I’m in now is changing the department. It’s including more advanced placement test-driven subjects whereas it used to be a place where you could go to –
Noam Chomsky: – Think about things.
So we have people out to grab a business certificate from a big bureaucracy. (If that's what an "education" means now for many, because their job/compensation prospects are such a headache, I couldn't care less about most forms of cheating. It's not the problem to solve. Even people I know with fancy degrees have to put up with shitty workplaces.)