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A forthcoming project—the best contemporary literary fiction from authors around the globe
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May 18
AI is turning students into "drooling morons," and destroying universities, writes UChicago student. AI addicts dream of techno-riches, writes Stanford student.
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May 12
"The Western intellectual tradition has survived several botched suicide attempts. I wonder if our descendants will look back at our current treatment of higher education as one more disfiguring try." thenewcritic.com/p/the-great…
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May 12
"I do not think anyone over the age of 23, even if you are a teacher, graduate student, or professor, understands the extent to which AI usage affects every appendage of the university system." thenewcritic.com/p/the-great…
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Here's an example of one of the poems
, we may learn humility from the luckless scholar who saw reason to approach the Linear B script by way of Basque, and eventually derived elegiac poems from what are now taken to be storehouse inventories. His book was published, in 1931, by the Oxford University Press.
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To be fair to Gordon, he does identify some of texts as storehouse inventories
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Some things never change...Robert Hutchins in "The Higher Learning in America"(1936):
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Apr 1
Perhaps relevant to all the recent discussion about 'High Point University'
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Mar 31
13. Waiting for Girard: Rivalry, Apocalypse, and Return
Owen Yingling (@defOYtrust), student at the University of Chicago
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Mar 19
The full context (From his 'Aims of Education' lectures given at UChicago in 1950-1951):
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Mar 19
He is not so much against these ideas per se as he is concerned with condemning a careless way of equating proper human behavior with pragmatic social goals that you often see in these arguments
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