this article blew my mind... not in the way i am too craven to blow it, but it'll do

ace.mu.nu 03 Feb '13, 8pm

this article blew my mind... not in the way i am too craven to blow it, but it'll do

Over many years of clinical observation, I repeatedly confirmed the truth of Wordsworth's observation that "the child is father of the man". So who were these wordsmith cowards as children? In his great essay Why Do Intellectuals Oppose Capitalism?, Robert Nozick pointed out that wordsmith intellectuals-writers, journalists, liberal arts professors, film makers, television pundits-had frequently been children who achieved success in school, based on their verbal skills. They were rewarded with elite status within the school system. As adults, however, they were not similarly rewarded. Capitalism rarely gives its greatest rewards to the verbally skilled. Nozick tried to sort out the puzzle, and concluded that it is our educational system, where, as he put it: "...to the intellectually meritorious went the praise, the teacher's smiles, and the highest grades. In the currency...

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@PCGalloway » 03 Feb '13, 8pm
Very interesting analysis by Ace of Spades...never thought of this before. But I see it in the classroom. [link]
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