[extropy-chat] Draft Paper on Boredom and Superlongevity

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jun 20, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Joseph Bloch wrote:

> I must disagree.
>
> "Designed"...? No.

Check out the writings of James Dewey re public education and its  
purpose.  Earlier the US public system was based on the Prussian  
education model.  In that model approximately 5% were considered  
worth educating to actually think/lead/innovate.  The rest were to be  
educated to obey orders more or less intelligently but explicitly not  
educated to think too much.

>
> Does so inadvertently, with the best of intentions...? Yes.
>

The actual documented intentions were not to produce as many thinking  
intelligent people as possible.

- samantha


> Joseph
>
> Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
>> On Jun 20, 2006, at 5:59 PM, MB wrote:
>>
>>
>>> This fits my experience in school, in certain classes. The studying
>>> was
>>> almost impossible for me to do. After about 10 minutes my "brain
>>> stopped"
>>> - I was unable to concentrate and there was no meaning to what I was
>>> doing. Over and over the material I would go, all to no avail. My
>>> input
>>> circuits seemed to have shut down. Surely not through overload  
>>> though.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Public K-12 education in the US at least was actually designed to
>> shut down large numbers of active bright minds.  I wish that I was
>> kidding.
>>
>>
>> - samantha
>>
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