Crazy- You can’t be a pilot with poor eyesight, so why can’t Cambridge say “if you can’t write an essay every week you can’t have a place?” Problem solved.
American infection in UK. Started in the 1980s when kids sports stopped keeping score and giving trophies for just participation. 2nd Wave Feminism and "mommy talk" now all pervasive, even in our Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris.
The difference with China though is that their education really IS incredibly rigorous and hardcore. I visited a school where dorm rooms had a speaker that would alarm the students at 6am to start the school day and blare announcements in Chinese for 30mins. The academic competition there is off the scale.
If they pay, they are customs. An elite university should be one that can take a low performing student and turn them into a high performing student. You only select those that have top marks and then say you are the best.
You can’t take an IQ of 100 and make a great mind. You need very bright people to start with. What you want to do, is take average runners and you think you’ll make them run under 10 second miles.
FYI in the archaeological record we find evidence of conflict (defensive structures, weaponry) in various prehistoric periods when we know that there was also pressure on scant resources (food and shelter)
Socrates moaned at young people but trained plato, plato moaned at young people then trained aristotle. This is just more grumpy old hasbeens moaning about the youth who supparst them. Ever was. By agreeing with this you are agreeing you are old and weak.
Those of us who have been involved in education since the 1960s might actually have more awareness of what has happened.......Having obtained a first class degree in Biology when only 1% of the population had one, and only 5% went to university, you did need to be both clver and industrious unless you had some other skill like sport and got treated preferentially. Having taught GCE 'A' level for 50 years, the content has definitely been dumbed down- I had to write 5 essays in 3 hours, with NO diagrams, supplied words or anything, you really needed to know your subject very deeply to be able to do that. The 16+ exam also involved essays. Now even 'A' level papers dont even require one essay, no wonder they get to university unable to coherently organise their thoughts and knowledge!!! Blair had the idea that half of all adolescents should go to university, which is ridiculous. Intelligence, as far as most studies show, is 50% nature and 50% nurture, and imo the nurture side has sadly declined due to change in parenting, expectations etc.
No. University now merely imparts sufficient self esteem for fir young people to assert their ignorance with confidence.
"Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Its a good quote but misattributed to FD. Source unknown.
Crazy- You can’t be a pilot with poor eyesight, so why can’t Cambridge say “if you can’t write an essay every week you can’t have a place?” Problem solved.
Pushing more students through universities means less demands are put on those students.
American infection in UK. Started in the 1980s when kids sports stopped keeping score and giving trophies for just participation. 2nd Wave Feminism and "mommy talk" now all pervasive, even in our Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris.
I'd say 1990s more really. More Blair all can have prizes.
The difference with China though is that their education really IS incredibly rigorous and hardcore. I visited a school where dorm rooms had a speaker that would alarm the students at 6am to start the school day and blare announcements in Chinese for 30mins. The academic competition there is off the scale.
If they pay, they are customs. An elite university should be one that can take a low performing student and turn them into a high performing student. You only select those that have top marks and then say you are the best.
You can’t take an IQ of 100 and make a great mind. You need very bright people to start with.
What you want to do, is take average runners and you think you’ll make them run under 10 second miles.
Wonderful to see Ayann. It's been a long time. Too long.
Why does Spectator TV only have 396K Subscribers? It always offers topnotch content.
Excellent episode, and Gove free too.
FYI in the archaeological record we find evidence of conflict (defensive structures, weaponry) in various prehistoric periods when we know that there was also pressure on scant resources (food and shelter)
“Alas, higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue, or higher political wisdom.” - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited
I've recently seen objective journalists leave the bbc to replaced with complient activists - for managerial reasons as we have learnt!
They're about to remove Stephen Sacker now of course.
The BBC hate the first 'B' in BBC.
While I fully agree with both the guests, I was hoping for a a counter argument in order to make a proper debate.
Unless your doing a very vocational degree e.g. nursing, degrees nowadays are essentially worthless.
It doesn’t seem these necessary changes will come to English universities soon?
Turner’s claim disability because they get extra time in exams.
Socrates moaned at young people but trained plato, plato moaned at young people then trained aristotle. This is just more grumpy old hasbeens moaning about the youth who supparst them. Ever was. By agreeing with this you are agreeing you are old and weak.
You really believe that?? Ha-ha-ha-ha-hah!!! Oh - go on; say it again.
Those of us who have been involved in education since the 1960s might actually have more awareness of what has happened.......Having obtained a first class degree in Biology when only 1% of the population had one, and only 5% went to university, you did need to be both clver and industrious unless you had some other skill like sport and got treated preferentially. Having taught GCE 'A' level for 50 years, the content has definitely been dumbed down- I had to write 5 essays in 3 hours, with NO diagrams, supplied words or anything, you really needed to know your subject very deeply to be able to do that. The 16+ exam also involved essays. Now even 'A' level papers dont even require one essay, no wonder they get to university unable to coherently organise their thoughts and knowledge!!! Blair had the idea that half of all adolescents should go to university, which is ridiculous. Intelligence, as far as most studies show, is 50% nature and 50% nurture, and imo the nurture side has sadly declined due to change in parenting, expectations etc.
If our every day started with a video like this, we would always walk around with a smile to our ears✨
Please provide a donut recipe.