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1. OK let’s break the downstream effects of this.
I suspect many bought into the existing paradigm so hard they can’t see outside it.
This event marks the start of the decline of residential education and the ability of academia to set and enforce cultural standards. https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1280165513264586756
I suspect many bought into the existing paradigm so hard they can’t see outside it.
This event marks the start of the decline of residential education and the ability of academia to set and enforce cultural standards. https://twitter.com/darrenrovell/status/1280165513264586756
2. First, this is significant because if HARVARD - the biggest name of names in education - is not holding residential classes, but is instead abandoning them in favor of online classes, everyone will pay attention.
And Harvard doing it makes it ok for other schools to do it.
And Harvard doing it makes it ok for other schools to do it.
3. Second, this takes away a major factor in indoctrination:
Keeping the subjects a captive audience away from family and social group.
It’s much harder to enforce social pressure and ostracism when they aren’t there living with the pressure and can’t get away.
Keeping the subjects a captive audience away from family and social group.
It’s much harder to enforce social pressure and ostracism when they aren’t there living with the pressure and can’t get away.
4. Third, why pay $50k + per year when you can get the same quality of course material from coursera or MIT?
You aren’t networking directly with other future “rulers of the world” so what’s the value add?
The paper?
You aren’t networking directly with other future “rulers of the world” so what’s the value add?
The paper?
5. Remember that Trump just signed an order prioritizing skills over credentials in government hiring.
That will affect corporate hiring too.
Credentialism will wane.
And with it, the compulsory funnel of people into the on-site indoctrination.
AND student loan debt slavery.
That will affect corporate hiring too.
Credentialism will wane.
And with it, the compulsory funnel of people into the on-site indoctrination.
AND student loan debt slavery.
6. Do you understand yet how huge this is?
You will no longer have to toe academia’s party line - currently Marxism and feminism - to get a world class education.
You will no longer have to toe academia’s party line - currently Marxism and feminism - to get a world class education.
7. The effects will trickle down to lower colleges and K-12 “daycare” education.
Homeschooling will see explosive growth.
Neighborhoods of like-minded people will form and enforce their own culture and standards (not “Wokism”) while still giving their kids world class education
Homeschooling will see explosive growth.
Neighborhoods of like-minded people will form and enforce their own culture and standards (not “Wokism”) while still giving their kids world class education
8. This will breed a neo-traditional movement of stronger nuclear / extended families, strengthen community and cultural institutions like churches and scouting, and in general encourage “cultural localism” instead of the current enforcement of a global homogeneous monoculture.
9. The industry of academia - administrators, pseudo-courts, instructors, resort amenities, and professors - will decline in importance as the best courses and professors will have their work be available to millions instead of the hundreds who can attend the school in person.
10. Freed from the monoculture gatekeepers, the best and brightest will engage in other academic and world-changing pursuits (again, other than the current wokism / pre-communism) and the next generation will be filled with problem solvers.
11. In short, Harvard is dismantling the mechanisms of its own ability to set and enforce cultural standards.
And while doing so, drastically weaken the culture it and academia currently enforce: Marxism / feminism.
And while doing so, drastically weaken the culture it and academia currently enforce: Marxism / feminism.
