06-27-2022, 11:54 AM
One part of the solution -- necessary but not sufficient in itself -- is to make formal education more rigorous at the K-12 level. The second part is to extend education in practice from K-12 as a minimal expectation (you do not want to be a high-school drop-out) to K-14. There is more to learn just to deal with the complexities that our technologies and our surfeit of entertainment offer. If kids play fewer video games and watch less programming on the Idiot Screen so that they can do more math and language-arts, then so be it. I remember people who grew up without so much mindless entertainment and they seemed none the worse for it.
The rightful focus is on liberal arts. We have more problems with moral failure than with technical inadequacy.
The rightful focus is on liberal arts. We have more problems with moral failure than with technical inadequacy.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.