Most of Sithsabre's points seem to speak to the educational establishment or the "nanny" state in general.
If the needeless and divisive extremeness (and political loadedness) of the questions are removed, I think there migh be a point to what he is saying.
From the 50s to today, education has by and large become a laboratory for whatever leftist academic needs to test their ware on children. Along with this, came the spurious idea that children are soft and fragile, where any discouragement or injury will cause irreparable cognitive damage to the child. Yes, there is no more corporal punishment, and I am a huge supporter of this, but at the same time, the standard for education has been steadily declining since mid century.
To the other point, the modern state is in a constant panic. All institutions need to act with legal liability in mind, and because of how stupid civil law has become, cannot allow things that are blatantly safe, for fear of lawyers. My favorite example is from my own life, and is entirely anecdotal. However, in my 3rd year of university, I was kicked out of a class for having a fairly loud and passionate discussion with my prof, after class, about the content of an essay and the philosophy she was forcing on the class. When security came the next class, I was labeled as a potential Coloumbine. What was funny was when I had to explain freedom of speech to the dean of my department.
Civil rights, sure, way better now. But we have very soft and bloated states. We don't want our children to fail or have any adversity, and if they do, we want to sue the absolute shit out of anyone else, because we are too amazing to be responsible.
Originally posted by inimalist
Most of Sithsabre's points seem to speak to the educational establishment or the "nanny" state in general.If the needeless and divisive extremeness (and political loadedness) of the questions are removed, I think there migh be a point to what he is saying.
From the 50s to today, education has by and large become a laboratory for whatever leftist academic needs to test their ware on children. Along with this, came the spurious idea that children are soft and fragile, where any discouragement or injury will cause irreparable cognitive damage to the child. Yes, there is no more corporal punishment, and I am a huge supporter of this, but at the same time, the standard for education has been steadily declining since mid century.
To the other point, the modern state is in a constant panic. All institutions need to act with legal liability in mind, and because of how stupid civil law has become, cannot allow things that are blatantly safe, for fear of lawyers. My favorite example is from my own life, and is entirely anecdotal. However, in my 3rd year of university, I was kicked out of a class for having a fairly loud and passionate discussion with my prof, after class, about the content of an essay and the philosophy she was forcing on the class. When security came the next class, I was labeled as a potential Coloumbine. What was funny was when I had to explain freedom of speech to the dean of my department.
Civil rights, sure, way better now. But we have very soft and bloated states. We don't want our children to fail or have any adversity, and if they do, we want to sue the absolute shit out of anyone else, because we are too amazing to be responsible.
While I appreciate the rational response, I was just having fun with this thread. I copy pasted that list from another website because it gave me a chuckle.
The only reason I even posted it in the GDF was because the topics of education and excess litigation were in there, but I honestly didn't expect anybody to really pick up on it and comment.
Kudos. 👆