http://dyspepsiageneration.com/?p=30797 We have seen the future, and it sucks. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:43:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://dyspepsiageneration.com/?p=30797&cpage=1#comment-11099 Sis Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:55:35 +0000 http://dyspepsiageneration.com/?p=30797#comment-11099 First, I have not clicked through to the article in Salon, so if I write something foolish, please ignore it. Second, the idea of automating education troubles me. When I was in college I had only one flagrantly leftist professor. After the long march through the institutions I imagine the ratio is now reversed. But we do know there are still some sensible college instructors left, usually in the hard sciences. "Automating" education, on all levels, would eliminate any possibility that a student would ever encounter a teacher who broke the union's mold. First, I have not clicked through to the article in Salon, so if I write something foolish, please ignore it. Second, the idea of automating education troubles me. When I was in college I had only one flagrantly leftist professor. After the long march through the institutions I imagine the ratio is now reversed. But we do know there are still some sensible college instructors left, usually in the hard sciences. “Automating” education, on all levels, would eliminate any possibility that a student would ever encounter a teacher who broke the union’s mold.

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