Your dichotomy between real and fake is wrong
(here’s the original tweet if you’d like to examine the replies and quotes yourself, where you will see many more of the below)
But when I read those three responses, I thought the same thing each time: have you people ever met a college student? Have you ever been one?
I totally agree that the idea of college is to allow ambitious young people to dive deep into the knowledge well of their choosing, but LORD does it take some overconfidence to suggest that that is what actually happens.
Here’s the story: large scale universities scale up from intimate breeding grounds for the elites of the elite, to everyone else. This is good. Now if you want to learn something, e.g. psychology, you can. 500 others born in the same year as you do too. The university now has a measurement problem, and needs a clean way to evaluate the great from the just ok. The university designs a curriculum of assignments and final exams spanning 3 years. Your performance on these decides how good you are at psychology, before offering you to the world.
One of the tweeter’s says this: “the job of a student is not to output "schoolwork" as if it's a commodity, but to learn through the processes of creating and completing that work.”
