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In reply to the discussion: Santorum bashes public schools, says they're stuck in factory era [View all]chervilant
(8,267 posts)I do love this presentation, for several reasons (not the least of which is the creative animation). One of Sir Ken's points stands out for me: the "intellectual model of the mind," which results in "two types of people": "academic and non-academic." For quite some time now, I have called this our species' great psychic wound: that two-thirds to four-fifths of us are convinced that we have 'average or below-average intellects.' What a crock of crapola!
Furthermore, how likely is it that such a stultifying message has contributed to the rampant anti-intellectualism du jour, and the right wing extremists' adjuration that we shouldn't provide public education funded by our tax dollars?!
I recommend Susan Jacoby's "The Age of American Unreason," which provides an essential history of the various socio-cultural elements underpinning our species' growing disdain for all things intellectual.