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Education is about personal and intellectual growth, not about winning some race to the top. But, you just wrote... Society needs a mechanism for sorting out
by chopsueyar 15y ago
Education is about personal and intellectual growth, not about winning some race to the top.
But, you just wrote...
Society needs a mechanism for sorting out its more intelligent members from its less intelligent ones, just as a track team needs a mechanism (such as a stopwatch) for sorting out the faster athletes from the slower ones.
- Wuzzy 15y agoThe author is presenting different viewpoints on the role of higher education, not saying he holds them all (because, obviously, they are, at least in part, contradictory, which is also something the author mentioned).