Professor of #philosophy. Contributing author at Classical Academic Press. Lover of art and aesthetics. #virtue ethics, #Phenomenology. #Catholic lad. #Thomism
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A big elephant in the room. It’s not even that students don’t read, it’s that they have been normalized to not sit with a text for more than a few minutes at a time. And the OER push only encourages small bite reading.
Jun 12
A Berkeley history professor said he’s gone from assigning 100 pages of reading per week to 35.
Another “said the earliest version of the…course he taught required seven full books, while his most recent iteration exclusively consisted of excerpts.”
“We are now reaching a crisis point where if the number (of pages) goes down further, it’s unclear to me whether my discipline of history can really be taught,” the first one said.
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It's not up to professors to get students to read. That's on parents and teachers through high school. Our job is expanding minds reading great works afterward.
Teach your children to read, people.
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Jun 7
Conservatives are correct to be frustrated with modern universities.
But the solution shouldn't be to abandon higher education. It should be to recover its original purpose.
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I think to teach the books I teach, I need to have thought about them a long time and on my own terms. I think for students to study the books I teach is very useful, but the uses are basically impossible to predict...
I'm not saying there's an exact metric, but would you say that the work you do is useful? If a computer produced the same work instantly before your career started, so that you could build off of that point, or if it produced your work decades earlier so people knew about the results sooner, would that not have been more valuable?
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Every academic press and journal needs a clear ban on AI writing.
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Yes. Grade inflation and learning deflation
Few students lie in course evals but the evals in toto force instructors to appease students, which is one of the reasons for grade inflation.
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May 21
I'm grateful to @DouthatNYT for inviting me on his podcast to discuss the fate of the liberal arts and humanities in the age of AI. I hope that all those who follow higher ed and care about the liberal arts will listen.
nytimes.com/video/opinion/10… nytimes.com/video/opinion/10…
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May 14
One of the best things you will ever watch.
You need to watch Kenneth Clark’s 1969 docuseries, Civilisation. He covers the fall of Rome up to the mid 20th century. It’s 13 parts and 11 hours long, but it’s incredible.
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May 12
Socratic Method is the last, best hope.
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The institutions that will survive AI will be small, personal, with small class sizes and a strong institutional culture. (Yes, places like @stjohnscollege )
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We never needed blackboard or canva.
And we could just stop using them and everything would be fine.
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Apr 29
I used to have a strict no laptop and especially phones out during class. After this semester I am going back to that policy. Oy vey!
In today’s NYT:
“Los Angeles parents are fed up with schools loading up students with laptops and tablets, and assigning schoolwork on a slew of apps … The parents’ successful campaign points to an escalating national reckoning for the powerful classroom technology industry.”
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With due respect: If there is one thing I understand, it is that the current academic system is *not* following the telos of the university. By contrast, it is failing. So I argue that the original telos needs to be restored.
Many conservative scholars (eg Zena) are unable to grasp that their own personal telos narrative is not the telos of the system of which they’re a component. And of course, possessing this inability is a big part of why the system “selected” them (in the evolutionary sense).
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100% correct. The mandatory faculty development at too many colleges mostly makes teachers worse!
Apr 8
A school is healthy when its teachers are still being formed. Stagnant adults cannot raise living souls.
Teachers need a seminar just as much as the students do, and the students need the teachers to participate in a seminar as much as the teachers need it.
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I very much appreciate the seriousness Greer brings to this question. It helps me to clarify for myself the nature of science as a liberal art as we practice it here @stjohnscollege 1/x
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I’ll bite on this. Let’s say the goal is something like “broad based scientific literacy” — the ability to understand the broad strokes of how the physical world works, as well as fluency in mathematical techniques you’d need to understand the average paper somewhere.
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Mar 17
Blocked and reported.
Mar 17
Does anybody have a good theory for why we're still doing philosophy even though Hume solved it nearly three hundred years ago?
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Is it the students or the data-crazed administrators?
Mar 16
In 2008, 62% of teachers said they were very satisfied with their job.
In 2022, that dropped to 12%.
We've got a serious problem brewing in education...
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It is a problem. Teaching in front of a bunch of open laptops makes me bonkers.
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