Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Common Ground 2:Tapa Ghosh. 21 yo Chip CEO and STEM Thinker." video.

  1. Having a large base of knowledge is necessary in order to draw conclusions, I often find the focus on critical thinking to just be a hardly subtle attempt to bring in Freire, teaching people without any knowledge base to be critical is essentially setting a formula and people with it are in reality the least intellectually open you will ever find, the uneducated are far better, you will essentially be dealing with people who are miseducated. A very high standard of education has the issue that it has trouble doing anything about motivation or innate ability, if education were judged in an economic light it would seem an utter failure, very little is obtained with massive resources, good schools on top of this are rare and most people will easily learn more in a year of self-study than in their entire school life, the problem is people have not been taught to learn for themselves and once they leave school they will have limited time. University also has the problem of being oversubscribed and many disciplines having a shocking level of academic rigour (if you are associated with sociology like the school of education then welcome to all your sources basically being bunk, and an inability understand statistics properly or to be aware of your assumptions, you end up with people talking about reality being subjective instead of actually constructing anything useful, there are a lot of tensions between academics and practitioners as the academics are totally delusional and don't factor basic realities into their aims (like that teachers have limited time and resources and they aren't going to get an infinite pool by whining, doing a bad job or passing a rule saying they don't need sleep)).
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  2. In my experience many teachers don't deserve to be respected, they are outright terrible at their job.
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