[extropy-chat] A few points of interest for future historians

[BillK]

On 9/28/05, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> I'm sorry to be blunt about this, but there comes a time when you have
> to put up a sign, and people who aren't taller than the sign shouldn't
> be riding the roller coaster.
>

Sorry, Eli, but you just don't understand the modern educational
system. You must never tell anyone that they can't do something.
Encouragement is the PC way.

See:
<http://news.scotsman.com/education.cfm?id=1654192005>
(Use Bugmenot.com to bypass signon)

THE word "fail" should be deleted from the school vocabulary and
replaced with the term "deferred success", the conference of a leading
teaching union will hear next week.

Martin Goold, the Suffolk secretary of the NUT, said: "I would have
thought that the word fail had been eradicated from most educational
settings already.

"I can't think of any situation where it is used, apart from a public
examination, where the lowest grade is the letter F, the first letter
of the word fail."
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In the UK hardly anyone fails exams anymore. The A-level pass rate in
the UK has risen slightly this year to 96.2% of entries.

So you want to be a brain surgeon? - No problem.
And anybody can do AI work - we have the right to do whatever we want.

Competence to do a job seems to be an optional extra in our wonderful PC world.

BillK