The author repeats the common opinion that “No one ‘worked out’ in the year of our Lord 1900. Daily life was physically demanding enough that everyone was in shape by default.”
I liked going to school, from the first day at Northern Virgina Community College to the last one at UNH, but I found college increasingly irrelevant. Sp I went to work at a shipyard and eventually taught myself the finer elements of software design. The stuff I learned in school that I found useful were the basic science courses, and foreign languages.
“Professors, in this model, become more like personal trainers. Their job will be to help students learn to learn, to engage in Socratic dialogues with them, to guide them through material, to help them think of questions or directions of inquiry that they might not have thought of on their own … and which the professors themselves might not think of until they engage with the student.”
Mentorship, discipline, and accountability. These are the things students need and where things like online learning and ai tutors fall short but ai tutors should make the online learning aspect better and help meet those three needs.
School wont just be having fun or smart people engaging in mental masturbation. It can be enjoyable but it should be fulfilling, which is often the byproduct of struggle. Smart people have had it easy compared to the normals because they pick things up faster and retain information better but with an individualized education pairing ai tutors with mentorship, discipline, and accountability, learning can be turned into the same constant challenge normal people face.
My theory is that high IQ people are underperforming, just like everyone else, and that their true potential lies hidden. When you are in the top 2% or .5% it is easier to coast through competing with the rest of the population.
At the end though, it doesn’t matter how smart you are, how much money you make, or your educational advancement. What matters is, did you live a good life? Who determines what a good life is?
Mike Rowe says: Learn a trade…
The author repeats the common opinion that “No one ‘worked out’ in the year of our Lord 1900. Daily life was physically demanding enough that everyone was in shape by default.”
People certainly did exercise in those days.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_culture
E.g., “The Origins of German Bodybuilding: 1790-1970”
https://starkcenter.org/igh/igh-v9/igh-v9-n2/igh0902e.pdf
I liked going to school, from the first day at Northern Virgina Community College to the last one at UNH, but I found college increasingly irrelevant. Sp I went to work at a shipyard and eventually taught myself the finer elements of software design. The stuff I learned in school that I found useful were the basic science courses, and foreign languages.
“Professors, in this model, become more like personal trainers. Their job will be to help students learn to learn, to engage in Socratic dialogues with them, to guide them through material, to help them think of questions or directions of inquiry that they might not have thought of on their own … and which the professors themselves might not think of until they engage with the student.”
Mentorship, discipline, and accountability. These are the things students need and where things like online learning and ai tutors fall short but ai tutors should make the online learning aspect better and help meet those three needs.
School wont just be having fun or smart people engaging in mental masturbation. It can be enjoyable but it should be fulfilling, which is often the byproduct of struggle. Smart people have had it easy compared to the normals because they pick things up faster and retain information better but with an individualized education pairing ai tutors with mentorship, discipline, and accountability, learning can be turned into the same constant challenge normal people face.
My theory is that high IQ people are underperforming, just like everyone else, and that their true potential lies hidden. When you are in the top 2% or .5% it is easier to coast through competing with the rest of the population.
At the end though, it doesn’t matter how smart you are, how much money you make, or your educational advancement. What matters is, did you live a good life? Who determines what a good life is?