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Content tagged with “higher-education”
There are 6 item(s) tagged with “higher-education” on this site.
Other tags used by these items: education, critical-thinking, learning, psychology, race, society, politics, fiction, science-fiction, dystopian, fantasy
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- April 10, 2024
“This is quite a good book about the ‘safe space’ concept, mostly at universities. It’s very similar to The Parasitic Mind or The Constitution of Knowledge . It fights back against three ‘untruths’: What doesn’t kill you makes you weaker (it doesn’t) Always trust your feelings (don’t) Life is a…”
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- May 5, 2017
“This is essentially a long-form rant against the fact that (1) people think they’re experts when they’re clearly not, and (2) they tend to look down on actual expertise and distrust experts. It was both inspiring and infuriating. The author writes well, but he offered no solutions. So, take it for…”
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- January 26, 2026
“This book is from the late 80s, and it decries the loss of something that might not exist anymore – or might exist so much that it’s simply no longer notable. The author is discussing the fate of ‘public intellectuals,’ which are some of the great thinkers of the 20th century that would regularly…”
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