It makes me wonder how much of this can be traced back to the mass expansion of university education. Before the 80s a liberal arts education required a certain degree of brain power and dedication. Nowadays the average IQ of a university student has declined to the average of the general population, and as a result of a "user pays/custo…
It makes me wonder how much of this can be traced back to the mass expansion of university education. Before the 80s a liberal arts education required a certain degree of brain power and dedication. Nowadays the average IQ of a university student has declined to the average of the general population, and as a result of a "user pays/customer satisfaction" driven model of teaching the most challenging courses have been mothballed and replaced by those that make the crowd cheer (and are easy to pass with minimal effort). Did all this populist babble merely fill in the void? The lecturers had to teach something to pad out those four long years of an undergraduate degree. Idle hands do the devil's work, idle minds think his thoughts.
It makes me wonder how much of this can be traced back to the mass expansion of university education. Before the 80s a liberal arts education required a certain degree of brain power and dedication. Nowadays the average IQ of a university student has declined to the average of the general population, and as a result of a "user pays/customer satisfaction" driven model of teaching the most challenging courses have been mothballed and replaced by those that make the crowd cheer (and are easy to pass with minimal effort). Did all this populist babble merely fill in the void? The lecturers had to teach something to pad out those four long years of an undergraduate degree. Idle hands do the devil's work, idle minds think his thoughts.