Everyone Now Acknowledges, Online Education is Crap
But they Don't Acknowledge the Pre-Conditions that Make it so
One of my professor colleagues, a Republican, complained that his online “students” don’t even write their own 500 word “introduce yourself” blurbs. Everything is going through the cheating mill. This is what “education” has become.
The Democrats in K-12 have choked out the classical curriculum, have been behind the push for universal eyeballs on screens — a disaster — and it’s naturally led to this. You cannot cheat in a Socratic dialogue, in person, without grade-inflation, with mandatory paper ballots I mean paper written quizzes. The Democrats have been pushing the “green” campus thing for years, where they want a “paperless” campus. That was long before the Scamdemic and the Lockdowns in 2020ff. It made it harder for me to give paper quizzes. It trained new students to expect to come to class without paper and writing utensil with which to take notes. I’m not even sure my students know how to write a check — most , as of years ago, had never even mailed anything in their lives. Folks, a check is a contract. One of the best ways of teaching kids common law contract is by teaching them to write a check, where their signature is their word, their bond, their promise. Kids don’t take signatures seriously, something that was a basic unit of knowledge for thousands of years is entirely missing now. Is it any wonder there’s a move against paper ballots in elections ?
Colleges still don’t have a plan, the Democrat Atlantic writer says . Folks, colleges created the pre-conditions for the death of online education. Democrat parents egged it on. Why would they have a “plan”? It is their plan, what’s happened.
There are two types of “students”. The real kind, and the fake kind. Both senses of the term are spelled the same way.
I describe both of these senses of the spelling of s-t-u-d-e-n-t in the TRP Episode “Two Types of Students”, Summer 2023, available here on YouBoob and here on audio only.
My husband is a professor for online schools. He’s very good at what he does. Does he have students that are subpar ? Yes. Is he still able to teach them on the PhD level ? Yes. He spends more time with individual students than he would have in a brick and mortar school. I think many of them would say they got a good education - but like all things it depends on what they put into it.