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Students should be involved in their education as more than observers or receptacles for information. Engagement and debate are the lifeblood of a university, and professors are not above criticism of either their ideas or their teaching ability. But the industrial model of education has reduced college to a commercial transaction, where students are taught to be picky consumers rather than critical thinkers. The ripple effect on expertise and the fuel this all provides to attacks on established knowledge defeat the very purpose of a university.
The Death of Expertise
Tom Nichols
To have reason cut off from the high-speed, jump-cut assistance of emotion is virtually incapacitating, as many neuroscientists have shown with patients who have suffered brain damage. Those patients can perform all sorts of logical functions; they have normal memory; and yet they are incapable of scheduling an appointment because their pure reason makes it impossible for them to decide. They can’t bookmark feelings. They have no intuition, no gut feelings. They’ve been cut off from their bodies in a sense. The most remarkable discovery of modern neuroscience is that the body controls the brain as much as the brain controls the body.
Deep Survival
Laurence Gonzales
The Opinion Razor
"I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do." - Charlie Munger
Opinions are earned, not owed.
If you can't state state the opposition's argument clearly, you haven't earned an opinion.
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