"Oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Reposted by Kevin M. Kruse
https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Holly Brewer
‪@earlymodjustice.bsky.social‬

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540

I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
Nov 20, 2025, 7:22 PM

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

— Holly Brewer (@earlymodjustice.bsky.social) 2025-11-21T00:22:28.710Z

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. "A college degree is not just about a job afterward -- you have to be able to think, solve problems and apply..."

Yes, but that is exactly what has been removed from education.

We are not taught to think anymore. We are taught to be good little wage slaves. Nothing else is allowed to interfere with that outcome.

[Igel]

4. That's what the market wants.

They want paper to cover over inabilities ... For years the research has been clear--declining amounts of work, and when there's an exit exam after 4 years apart from the major (and that, only for some majors) there's hardly any increase in knowledge and thinking. They learn to recite things for the test.

Even the G/T kids, give them a question about centripetal force and say to start with a free body diagram the first response for half of them is that's the last unit, not this unit.

It's embarrassing.

[OldBaldy1701E]

5. Yep.

And, since the market is the 'church' of our 'religion'...



(The fact that so much of our modern education system is based on the 'memorization/recitation' model and so little of it is based on the 'learning for application' model that we are left with plenty of people who can spew information, but fewer and fewer who can implement it, much less handle things once they go off script. I believe it was Zappa who said that 'information is not knowledge'.)

It is indeed embarrassing.

[MiHale]

2. The beginning of the Robopocalypse...

If or when Artificial Intelligence gains some level of sentience we are in trouble.

Interesting novel by Daniel H. Wilson, ’Robopocalypse’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robopocalypse

[lark]

3. Exactly why the fascist R's want to end free education in America. nt