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> The real world It's not the real world - its the human world. The real world is very different, and getting more so imho. Skills to survive the human world a
by chadcmulligan 7y ago
> The real world
It's not the real world - its the human world. The real world is very different, and getting more so imho. Skills to survive the human world are usually useless in the real physical world. It's a distinction I read recently from a philosopher that I lost track of, maybe someone here knows. Her point was (I think) that when someone says the real world, with relation to education, it's not really - it's the world of human systems that are very much open to degradation and corruption, and they can be changed.
- buboard 7y ago> and they can be changed is that a hard fact or wishful thinking? In the context of this discussion, the rewards do not come from "the physical world" but from other humans (money) , so generic mountain-survival skills are irrelevant
- chadcmulligan 7y agoOf course they can be changed - how hard they are to change is another matter. The current system isn't set in stone, or handed down from above.
- chadcmulligan 7y agoFound the article in case anyone is still browsing here http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/humevas.html http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/humevas.html its interesting