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Equitability focus has to be willful sabotage of national competitiveness.
by hoseja 2y ago
Equitability focus has to be willful sabotage of national competitiveness.
- littlestymaar 2y agoThat's the problem when you start worshipping competition: when competition becomes central to your society and institutions then you're going to have lots of popular pressure to make the competition “fair”.
- HPsquared 2y agoIt's a couple of things. 1. Treating education as a competitive sport/ tournament (zero-sum thinking). 2. Blank slate theory, assuming if a kid does well it's because of external factors.
- HPsquared 2y agoAnd, more importantly, massive sabotage of the individuals affected.
- helboi4 2y agoYeah it fucking ruined me and turned me from a very gifted kid into a non functional adult because I basically learnt to disengage with everything in my life and fail upwards. I find it really hard to get out of this habit and actually use the potential that I have. I mean, using your potential is much easier when you're a teenager and not a working adult that's already fucked up for a decade.
- HPsquared 2y agoYep! Not sure what to call it, kind of an "achievement ceiling" with standardised testing. Allows gifted kids to develop really terrible work and study habits and still appear to be doing well.