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Giroux is a bit too left for me, but the prognosis and message for hope in this video is spot-on in my opinion. [1] According to this narrative we stopped maki

Giroux is a bit too left for me, but the prognosis and message for hope in this video is spot-on in my opinion. [1] According to this narrative we stopped making Einsteins because it's simply no longer in the interests of the "elites" to have smart people around. Education became a liability to those cheering for cybernetic governance and social control media. Similar explanations are proffered by John Taylor-Gatto, Sir Ken Robinson, Noam Chomsky, and of course Paulo Friere. While I don't fully agree with the ideologies of these thinkers, frustratingly, from what I see inside higher education, everything is designed to produce narrow-minded, uncritical, docile people who will not ask too many questions or think too hard. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh-3_DIi5HM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh-3_DIi5HM

scaramanga 5y ago
In other words "prepare them for adulthood" where those skills will serve them well. It's hardly like those guys have discovered a deep secret. They tell you to develop a deep, spiritually enriching knowledge of a field and faculty for critical thinking that you can use to solve social problems. But none of that is going to help you when you are alone, taking the exam, so you just memorize crap for the exam because you need that to get hired at the job. Your boss tells you to write fewer bugs, but it's clear that they reward shipping features fast so you sling code fast instead because it's your job to anticipate your bosses desires, not listen to what he says.. When the bugs blow up, you roll up your sleeves and do some heroic debugging, especially working long hours, and win a medal and a 21 gun salute at your funeral. Developing that instinctive understanding of who is in charge and what they really want and then dedicating yourself to the task is the primary adaptive strategy you can have as an adult.
- nonrandomstring 5y ago
  > understanding of who is in charge and what they really want and then dedicating yourself to the task is the primary adaptive strategy you can have as an adult. You are in charge. That is the only thing you need to know about being an adult.

scaramanga 5y ago

In other words "prepare them for adulthood" where those skills will serve them well. It's hardly like those guys have discovered a deep secret. They tell you to develop a deep, spiritually enriching knowledge of a field and faculty for critical thinking that you can use to solve social problems. But none of that is going to help you when you are alone, taking the exam, so you just memorize crap for the exam because you need that to get hired at the job. Your boss tells you to write fewer bugs, but it's clear that they reward shipping features fast so you sling code fast instead because it's your job to anticipate your bosses desires, not listen to what he says.. When the bugs blow up, you roll up your sleeves and do some heroic debugging, especially working long hours, and win a medal and a 21 gun salute at your funeral. Developing that instinctive understanding of who is in charge and what they really want and then dedicating yourself to the task is the primary adaptive strategy you can have as an adult.

nonrandomstring 5y ago
> understanding of who is in charge and what they really want and then dedicating yourself to the task is the primary adaptive strategy you can have as an adult. You are in charge. That is the only thing you need to know about being an adult.