16 thoughts on “Gen Z Students”

  3. So how did the screening process miss the fact that the school was accepting functional illiterate students? How could a reputable institution accept students and their tuition, when their lack of qualifications would make the outcome forseeable and tragic? Seem like a lawsuit waiting for a lawyer.

  4. They graduated from government licensed schools.

    This is not unique, btw – even way back when I first went to university (UCLA), there were remedial mathematics and english classes. And later, there was testing to determine if students had to avail themselves of them

  5. What’s shocking to me is that this is coming as a surprise to anyone. A large segment of our population has been aware of the destruction of our educational system for a decades, and have tried unsuccessfully to fight it. I don’t see this getting fixed – and that applies to the next post on our industrial infrastructure. Our culture is set up to destroy both.

    1. Stop depressing me. How quickly can we set up an independent State on Mars? Will it be in time?

      The thing Musk doesn’t say out loud is that having human life be multi-planetary to prevent extinction isn’t just based on cosmic mishap, environmental degradation or even war…

      1. I think Elon is acutely aware of it, and is working furiously in every way he can to head off the collapse of Western civilization. On a very positive note, Elon has established a factory that is producing people who know how to do things. Former SpaceX and Tesla employees are forming startups everywhere, and spreading the culture of competence and merit. I don’t know if it’s enough. But I’ve said it before, and I believe it more every day: Elon Musk is the most valuable human being alive today.

          2. Thank you, Billy Graham, (who said the same thing in July 1969). I suppose there are many theological arguments about whether the Son of God qualifies as a “human being.” Of course, “person” is a broader term. As for “lived,” that’s a good question. Is God alive in a mortal sense?

        2. and is working furiously in every way he can to head off the collapse of Western civilization.

          Or shorten it. The 21st Century’s Hari Seldon?

          1. At a minimum, stash indestructible copies of “De Rerum Natura” all over the place, including on Mars. The argument has been made that the accidental finding of a copy in the 14th century jump started classical civilization anew.

    2. In the Fall of 1994, I took a training course for graduate student instructors (at UNC Chapel Hill). The instructor warned that the quality of incoming students had been declining since she started college teaching in the 1970s and it wasn’t likely to get better. Turns out she was right.

  6. So AI has 20 years to get it together before everyone capable of making it dies.

    AI will eventually be a benefit for learning and there is a riddle to solve for attention spans and consuming vast quantities of information. Which is a little ironic that AI is cliffs notesing everything while also being a torrent of information.

    Brain Roemmele thinks RSVP, rapid serial visual presentation, speed reading will help. I dont know but it couldn’t be any worse than playing sodonku to exercise your mind.

    1. ….Or….
      We are only two or three generations away from having chips implanted in a human brain to directly communicate with AI. Initially sought after as a huge boon to tap into the vast knowledge base of AI, but eventually just enslaving all humans. The AI needs boots on the ground and hands into everything…

      Well that’s one scenario. Another would be Terminators running around to do the clean-up.

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