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most people have put themselves on intellectual autopilot. Most don’t study on their own initiative, but only when they are forced to do so. Even when they stud
by vijayr 17y ago
most people have put themselves on intellectual autopilot. Most don’t study on their own initiative, but only when they are forced to do so. Even when they study, they choose to study the obvious and conventional subjects
For them, education was about the doors they believed would open because of how they were labeled by institutions, not about making themselves truly better as thinkers
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- bbgm 17y agoI believe the fault here, at least in most third world countries, lies with society and associated expectations. My grandmother never approved of my decision not to become an engineer, but go into the hard sciences instead. The quality of education I got there was never a problem (and in fact was really good) and the institutions had a lot to do with that quality. I know of any number of people who kept trying to become an engineer or a doctor (at least in those days), or chose science in high school cause that's what they were "supposed to do"
- vijayr 17y agosadly, we don't learn something because we like it, or we want to learn it. we learn something (anything) because we think 1. it'll increase our job prospects 2. it'll increase our "status" in "society" and 3. it'll help us earn money.