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I work in university education and critical thinking is abysmal among students. I deal with 40-60 students per class, maybe 10-15 in a class show worthwhile critical skills. Most struggle to retain key points or cannot read and follow instructions. The majority don't, or don't know how, to access library databases or archives. Most assignments are full of sources they got from Google because the library search function is an extra click away.
Students also make life hell for themselves, their peers, and teachers because of their lack of respect for their surroundings. A significant portion of students just sit there with earbuds in and text or shop online.
And this isn't even mentioning the fact that half the curriculum isn't worth learning because the professor or department are compromised by liberalism and settler imperialism.
Not sure what I'm contributing here. I think this is nothing new, it's just so intense these days that it's hard to believe it's ONLY education and ideology. It feels like there is more to the puzzle otherwise my story of emerging out of Christian fascism through criticism is just an accident and not a universal model for personal growth.
Edit: I want to add that my deepest frustration isn't even with fascism per se. It's with liberals. I am about as scared of liberals as fascists, because liberals (and anarchist types) are very self righteous about things that will only make things worse and they are so poisoned by discourse that whatever critical skills they have only function as their own ideological prison, a golden cage to be proud of. Fascists do exactly what I expect at least. Fanon was right that people can only truly become themselves through conflict against oppression and by destroying their oppressors. There is no other anvil to be molded on but imperial ideology.
I'm partial to the idea that the uniquely American approach to University causes this through a combination of a) people with little interest in advanced education going through the motions because it's expected, b) people who might be interested in it were the circumstances different being pushed to a cynical view of it by our societal anti-intellectualism, and c) people who are very interested in it getting burned out by the often self defeating expectations and structure of the system.
In a better world, universities would be smaller, the students would be older, and most professions would train on the job. Tons of proffessions like software coding really don't need to be taught by colleges, but that's where everyone who wants to "learn to code" ends up because of the way we've bloated those institutions.
I'm not familiar with this idea. What happens in a world without imperialism, etc.?
idk, I guess I can't say shit about it because when I was the subject of violence I basically just took it and now I'm a hollow person, but I feel like the best outcome would have involved not being the subject of violence in the first place.