I’m in Canada … but we’re all on track for Idiocracy in the next few decades.
For the past 40 years education everywhere has been dumbed down to the point where many schools just push students out just to maintain numbers to keep up funding.
Between dumbed down education and AI making us even dumber … we’re all in trouble over the next few decades.
Yep, college profs are regularly failing students for being illiterate at the top 10 uni my partner works at. We had a doom and gloom conversation about this after an event recently. These students should be the cream of the crop. Profs say the decline predated but seems accelerated by the covid pandemic. As you said, they say administration had been pressuring profs to keep averages up so some of the decline has been obfuscated by padded data (grades). Remedial reading classes are needed even at top universities. Students use AI for both papers and presentations and profs are worried that they are skipping the steps that train your brain to think deeply and analytically.
I’m in Canada … but we’re all on track for Idiocracy in the next few decades.
For the past 40 years education everywhere has been dumbed down to the point where many schools just push students out just to maintain numbers to keep up funding.
Between dumbed down education and AI making us even dumber … we’re all in trouble over the next few decades.
Add microplastics causing inflammations to the brain to the list
Yep, college profs are regularly failing students for being illiterate at the top 10 uni my partner works at. We had a doom and gloom conversation about this after an event recently. These students should be the cream of the crop. Profs say the decline predated but seems accelerated by the covid pandemic. As you said, they say administration had been pressuring profs to keep averages up so some of the decline has been obfuscated by padded data (grades). Remedial reading classes are needed even at top universities. Students use AI for both papers and presentations and profs are worried that they are skipping the steps that train your brain to think deeply and analytically.