"Don't worry, 'Sco!"
Posted on 10/02/2023 3:55:30 AM PDT by karpov
All political lives end in failure,” said British politician Enoch Powell, a proposition amply corroborated by his own career. Scholars are vulnerable to a similar fate. To paraphrase anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, academics can be certain of two things: Someday, they will all be dead, and ultimately, they will all be proven wrong. (Sahlins’s tip for a successful scholarly career—make sure the first precedes the second.)
Even superstars fail. In a classic Nike advertisement, basketball legend Michael Jordan confesses to missing more than 9,000 shots and losing almost 300 basketball games in his career. “Twenty-six times,” he says, “I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot—and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life.” Then, after a pause, he delivers the line that has attracted millions of people to view his advertisement on YouTube: “And that is why I succeed.”
Jordan’s message is motivating and inspiring, but it’s also worrying. If failure is essential to success, then what are the prospects for our current crop of students who have never experienced failure of any kind?
No school student is held back a year, summer-school repeats are rare, and “A” is becoming the most typical university grade. What happens when these students move out of education, where success is the norm, to a world in which failure is ubiquitous? Never having had to deal with setbacks, never having failed at anything, will they have the capacity to cope? Down here in Australia, where I live and teach, we will soon find out.
Over the past 20 years, government policy has encouraged the number of students studying in Australian universities to explode. The highest-ranked institutions have swept up the best-prepared applicants, forcing the less prestigious universities to lower their entry standards.
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That will sure make an Australian college degree worthless, won’t it?
It’s generational suicide.
Matt Walsh: Discussing Systemic Racism With Heather Mac Donald
Very frank race realism at least for YouTube.
WAY beyond what Heather Mac will say on network MSM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERojDYTAA_0
As an aside, Microsoft is a big proponent of certification.
Disaster is looming when standards are loosened.
NY pioneered this.
And now they have multiple generations that can’t read let alone actively think because the school system just pushed them on to the next grade.
This will be “fun” to watch play out in oz land.
EQUITY! WE MUST HAVE EQUITY...
I probably won’t be around 10, 15,or perhaps 20 years from now... but just in case I’m not “it’ll fail and I told you so.”
It won’t be exactly worthless.
College in Australia will become more of a transactional fee based system. The degree, itself, will be worth precisely the cost of tuition.
The only thing left to consider, once the value of the education becomes decoupled from class work, study and demonstrable mastery of the subject material, is the required duration .
If you pay for all 4 years, up front, can you pick up your degree as soon as the check clears?
“Hello, I’ll be performing your surgery today. I was part of the first class that graduated from Medical School with a ‘no fail’ policy. Shall we get started?”
It appears that universities have flaunted this requirement, so the government has stepped in.
They flouted it. English 101
College Participation Degree Diplomas. You used to be able to order them with matchbook covers.
Medical schools no longer flunk students like the did in the past. They do pass/fail/needs improvement type of grading now.
"Don't worry, 'Sco!"
We essentially have that now for any college student who bothers to get “accommodations” for a “disability”.
It’s not law in the USA, but our major universities are already there.
Everyone will be equally stupid.
I would need engineers with a proven record of real education, not a diploma mill.
You screw up a project, people could die.
Are all white liberals truly this stupid? Do they all subscribe to the same webpage for information on how to be .. stupid?
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