How the difficult art of thinking isn’t taught and other highlights of my week on the net
nicholasgruen.substack.com
This is my pick for the best article I read this week. American education’s new dark age Thinking isn’t easy, and critical thinking isn’t really being a ‘team player’. In markets it’s not too popular. While it can confer some benefits on heroic entrepreneurs like Peter Theil, most standard commercial innovation arises from cleverness and facility, not critical thought. That’s in markets. Then there’s bureaucracies — private and public. (Enough said — they’re wall to wall team players.) Then there’s the academy — or was. Even there, the prizes increasingly go to facile cleverness. Critical thinking is no way to get an article published in a top journal.
How the difficult art of thinking isn’t taught and other highlights of my week on the net
How the difficult art of thinking isn’t…
How the difficult art of thinking isn’t taught and other highlights of my week on the net
This is my pick for the best article I read this week. American education’s new dark age Thinking isn’t easy, and critical thinking isn’t really being a ‘team player’. In markets it’s not too popular. While it can confer some benefits on heroic entrepreneurs like Peter Theil, most standard commercial innovation arises from cleverness and facility, not critical thought. That’s in markets. Then there’s bureaucracies — private and public. (Enough said — they’re wall to wall team players.) Then there’s the academy — or was. Even there, the prizes increasingly go to facile cleverness. Critical thinking is no way to get an article published in a top journal.