Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Google vs. Extended Adolescence

Google speaks on education:
"Google looks for the ability to step back and embrace other people’s ideas when they’re better. “It’s ‘intellectual humility.’ Without humility, you are unable to learn,” Bock says. “Successful bright people rarely experience failure, and so they don’t learn how to learn from that failure.”
When everyone in government schools gets a blue ribbon for just being, they develop no humility. It's all part of the dumbing down of America via maleducation. So collegiate education accepts dumbing down by eliminating history and english and goes for the frivolous. It's big business these days, not education.
"Many schools don’t deliver on what they promise, Bock says, but generate a ton of debt in return for not learning what’s most useful. It’s an “extended adolescence,” he says."
I guess Black Studies and Women's Studies aren't that useful to Google. But openness to new logical possibilities is:
"What we’ve seen is that the people who are the most successful here, who we want to hire, will have a fierce position. They’ll argue like hell. They’ll be zealots about their point of view. But then you say, ‘here’s a new fact,’ and they’ll go, ‘Oh, well, that changes things; you’re right.’”
When one gets bent to the Left in "education", facts no longer exist: the narrative exists. Protecting the narrative requires both irrational rationalization, and willingness to ignore actual facts. Because that becomes the natural way of thinking, it damages or eliminates the capacity for actual logical thinking.

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