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Even judging by Brendan’s and Patrick’s accounts (and I could easily reference many others), I think we can conclude that __from these jobs, students learn at least five things: 1. how to operate under others’ direct supervision; 2. how to pretend to work even when nothing needs to done; 3. that one is not paid money to do things, however useful or important, that one actually enjoys; 4. that one is paid money to do things that are in no way useful or important and that one does not enjoy; and 5. that at least in jobs requiring interaction with the public, even when one is being paid to carry out tasks one does not enjoy, one also has to pretend to be enjoying it.__
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
What now passes as "educational technology" is too often uninformed by the sciences of learning. It offers a depoliticized pedagogy of streaming video, didactic instruction, and mouse-and-click test prep. Lessons about the consumption of web-based content learned in school are taken home by students, where they consume hours of streamsysing video a day, clicking through an endless variety of claims, answers, and "facts," careening through a cultural techno-info-dreamscape.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
The pretence of knowledge is a problem. But so is the pretence of ignorance, and the discipline of economics, and the social sciences more broadly, still haven’t grappled enough with this second problem.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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