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Education matters because it exposes these tensions earlier than many other institutional environments. Schools and universities sit unusually close to the developmental layer of cognition that other institutions quietly depend upon but rarely evaluate directly. Educational systems are not simply supposed to produce outputs. They are supposed to cultivate interpretation, reasoning, uncertainty tolerance, revision, attention, contextual judgment, and intellectual maturity over time. That makes schools unusually sensitive to changes in how cognition itself is organized, externalized, accelerated, and evaluated.
That is what makes this moment so important. The long-term danger is not simply weaker essays or more automated assignments. It is the possibility that institutions across society gradually become better at coordinating polished epistemic performance while becoming worse at cultivating the developmental conditions required for thoughtful judgment itself.
Please don’t use archive.org as a free proxy. That project is stretched to the gills for resources and should only be used for archival purposes.
If you want to help bypass a paywall or something, just copy/paste the text into the post directly.
I just wanted to avoid linking directly to LinkedIn, since I think people would rather avoid visiting it for various reasons. I prefer linking to archives though, since copy-pasting feels more like theft of someone else’s content. At least the archive maintains the original context and authorship. Wikipedia basically uses archive.org as their main archive, so I don’t think a lemmy post will affect their load.
