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Don’t know about the US but in Sweden teachers are plagued by mandatory administrative task, as well as a myriad of small tasks all unrelated to teaching.
I hear this a lot, but what exactly is administrative tasks they are being burdened with that is not part of being a teacher?
I really like the article for its tone, because it feels authentic and raw and is not begging me to take it seriously. I think most if not all blog posts should be like this: you read it, you smile and think a bit, maybe write a quick comment, then you move on. I agree with the author that this whole thing about wanting to be the next Big Blogger Who Wrote That Article is probably bullshit.
TLDR: The internet is making us all fucking idiots and the only way to have a miracle year is to unplug from it
> Because now people have to spend their 20s learning about the discoveries that others made during their miracle years (the so-called “burden of knowledge”). Maybe now people have to spend their 20s learning about the discoveries because our modern pre-post-secondary education has become so watered down and unambitious. Personally, I get the sense that could have learned 5x to 20x as much in my teenage years if I ha…
K12 education is a crime against humanity. I want this institution to violently die.
There are various monied interests trying to "disrupt higher education". "Progress studies," "Thiel Fellowships," "University of Austin," whatever. I give them low odds but they're trying to do the right thing.
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If they’re overworked, what is it they’re working so hard and so ineffectively at?
I notice that you have perverted the meaning by adding the word "ineffective" which was not in the statement you are replying to, though you imply it was and that teachers are. As if the only way a person can be overworked is by not being effective at their job. And thus it is the teacher's failing that they cannot keep up with the workload, not the people assigning the workload. It seems you have had a very rare and…
You took this a little far with the personal attack.
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Sounds more like a gap year than a miracle year.
I was able to do that while I was still studying, which mostly involved memorizing a bunch of stuff. The software industry and its endless meetings drain my energy way more
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Most academic discoveries come from the same kind of hand-me-down process as practical inventions. Newton's tutor was the one who encouraged him toward studying proto-calculus. He even wrote down the fundamental theorem of calculus himself once but not realizing its importance never publicized it.
Interesting! I'd appreciate any sources though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Barrow
and here
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_calcu...
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What years does it cover? Edit-looks like 1763 onward. Very much left out there.
Seven Years War (The Crucible of War, that is not actually an Oxford history book) - 1974. I don't have the volume from 1945-1974 yet. I have a few other history books covering that period to present. Penguin has a similar series on European history from the Romans to 2017; I currently have three volumes covering 1814-2017.
Dwarkesh Patel's essay did not make much sense to me, and I don't get either how people like Jeff Bezos have time for something like this. Apparently Mark Andreessen and Paul Graham are paid to tweet all day, and they are experts at everything. Do they hire ghost-writers? How does this work?
a good rule of thumb I like is to downplay the opinions of famous people who tweet more than 3 times a day