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?
I long gave up on Socratic dialogues. Students just hate that. I guess there was a reason the authorities in Ancient Greece made Socrates drink poison.
Those of us in STEM, and especially in Engineering, long considered ourselves immune from governmental and other support from the society at large going away. I mean, we teach and do research on subjects of real, concrete, physical, quantifiable in monetary benefit terms. We are not Political Science or Social Science or any of a number of “studies” departments, aren’t we?
A scientist named Lucy Jones, a visiting scholar in geophysics at Caltech and founder of the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, is quoted in Caltech Magazine, a publication, not of the Alumni Association but apparently of Caltech itself, under the heading of “LA Fires: What Comes Next.”
Ms. Jones (I am accustomed to Bell Labs referring to PhD scientists as Mr. and Ms.) concern is about the recovery of small business, shops and restaurants and had this to say.
“Some of them burned . . . but there are a lot of others that weren’t burned but are losing their customers–people who can’t live here right now, who are busy with recovery, or who are freaked out and start shopping somewhere else. An important piece to a successful recovery is to support those businesses and keep our community alive.”
I guess I am getting my news about the recovery, or lack thereof, from a politically partisan source: Adam Carolla, an actor, comedian and right-leaning talk-show host. But are Adam Carolla, someone with first-hand experience being burnt out of his house, and Lucy Jones living in separate by parallel Universes?
The last reports I read was that the Pacific Coast Highway is still shut down and that the fire-ravaged communities are still under restrictions of who is allowed to go there. Allegedly, unless this is Fake Right-Wing Internet-Sourced News, the number of building permits issued to date is in the single digits whereas the number of destroyed structures is two orders of magnitudes larger. Something tells me that any businesses that were burnt down have deeper problems, problems of the making of LA City Government and other authorities, than their customers being “freaked out”?
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?
I long gave up on Socratic dialogues. Students just hate that. I guess there was a reason the authorities in Ancient Greece made Socrates drink poison.
Those of us in STEM, and especially in Engineering, long considered ourselves immune from governmental and other support from the society at large going away. I mean, we teach and do research on subjects of real, concrete, physical, quantifiable in monetary benefit terms. We are not Political Science or Social Science or any of a number of “studies” departments, aren’t we?
A scientist named Lucy Jones, a visiting scholar in geophysics at Caltech and founder of the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, is quoted in Caltech Magazine, a publication, not of the Alumni Association but apparently of Caltech itself, under the heading of “LA Fires: What Comes Next.”
Ms. Jones (I am accustomed to Bell Labs referring to PhD scientists as Mr. and Ms.) concern is about the recovery of small business, shops and restaurants and had this to say.
“Some of them burned . . . but there are a lot of others that weren’t burned but are losing their customers–people who can’t live here right now, who are busy with recovery, or who are freaked out and start shopping somewhere else. An important piece to a successful recovery is to support those businesses and keep our community alive.”
I guess I am getting my news about the recovery, or lack thereof, from a politically partisan source: Adam Carolla, an actor, comedian and right-leaning talk-show host. But are Adam Carolla, someone with first-hand experience being burnt out of his house, and Lucy Jones living in separate by parallel Universes?
The last reports I read was that the Pacific Coast Highway is still shut down and that the fire-ravaged communities are still under restrictions of who is allowed to go there. Allegedly, unless this is Fake Right-Wing Internet-Sourced News, the number of building permits issued to date is in the single digits whereas the number of destroyed structures is two orders of magnitudes larger. Something tells me that any businesses that were burnt down have deeper problems, problems of the making of LA City Government and other authorities, than their customers being “freaked out”?