∫aiden

This is actually true. Lately, many of my girlfriends (mid to late thirties) have been telling me that they are getting approached by early-twenties men, very confidently I would add. What’s going on?

Engineers that don't know their ass from a vector space aren't going to invent the Levi-Civita connection or discover Riemann curvature. They aren't David Hilbert or Einstein, the philosophy you need for this is from a culture that wouldn't exist.

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's. This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates. This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages. What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime. This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12. Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.