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@ddwchen it's funny, "critical thinking" is supposedly the goal of the entire humanities portion of people's general-ed requirement (almost a year's worth of courses at some US Unis) and yet teaching critical thinking is so time-intensive it's rarely donePermalink On twitter.com
Mood +6 🙂
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@ddwchen Mostly because Thatcher/Reaganite neoliberalism has been so mercilessly applied to unis that most gen-ed teaching is shunted onto overworked grad students and adjuncts (e.g. me, for 10 years of my life). The incentives in US Uni admin are beyond fuct, as bad as healthcare.Permalink On twitter.com
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@ddwchen In any case, I tried very hard to turn every class I taught into remedial instruction in the latter 4 of your 5, at great expense to my sanity, live/work balance, and performance reviews (which are primarily written by the STUDENTS, how fuct is that).Permalink On twitter.com
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@ddwchen long story short i eventually burnt out so here i am in web3 like everyone else, but i will say that over the years, the densest, proudest, and shittiest students I ever taught were currently getting A+s in their CS courses and couldn't wait for me to get out of their wayOn twitter.com
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@ddwchen my advice to every software or web3 founder is this: hire humanists and social scientists, eschew the well-credentialed finance and CS people, their academic formation tends towards inflexible and self-inflated "Fachidiotismus" as the Germans sayPermalink On twitter.com