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30 Sep 08

On Stupidity, Part 2 - Chronicle.com

  • Essentially I see students having difficulty following or making extended analytical arguments. In particular, they tend to use easily obtained, superficial, and unreliable online sources as a way of satisfying minimal requirements for citations rather than seeking more authoritative sources in the library and online. Without much evidence at their disposal, they tend to fall back on their feelings, which are personal and, they think, beyond questioning.



    In that context, professors are seen as peevish bureaucrats from whom students need to extract high grades on the road to a career in which problems with writing and critical analysis will somehow not matter.

  • One of the purposes of teaching, as I see it, is to negotiate the differences, real and imagined, between generations. At the moment, that means meeting the "digital natives" where they are, but it also means expecting them to meet the "digital immigrants" — the people who were not raised in front of personal computers — where we are.
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On Stupidity - Chronicle.com

  • Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963)
  • With some cyclical variation, Americans tend to distrust, resent, and even feel moral revulsion toward "intellectuals."
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