This is: a great idea

again, not having an interest in becoming "academically trained" is not a problem in and of itself.

but it doesn't surprise me that we expect young people who get a degree for its ROI to behave like aspiring academics and they don't give a shit.

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if we were all required to play pro level sports to get a high paying job, surely doping would be sky high.

not everyone "loves learning" and that's okay.

what causes the problem is needing a degree, but not having a desire to develop "academically".

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We don’t expect most young people to become semi-pro athletes, ranked chess players, or classically trained musicians.

so this expectation to complete a degree that was traditionally the first step toward an academic career seems a little odd.

3/5

been seeing a lot of hand-wringing about how university students are not developing the skills to succeed in their academic pursuits thanks to AI.

"what happened to the love of learning!?"

but should everyone "love" the specific flavor of learning that universities provide?

no.

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we don’t expect so many young people to become semi-pro athletes, ranked chess players, or classically trained musicians.

so this expectation to complete a degree that was traditionally the first step taken toward an academic career seems a little odd.

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been seeing a lot of hand-wringing about how university students are not developing the skills to succeed in thier academic pursuits thanks to AI.

"what happened to the love of learning!?"

but should everyone "love" the specific flavor of learning that universities provide?

I think no.

2/5

the temp folder seems to have died the same death as the documents it was designed to store

I'm not familiar with Kantian ethics at all but this book looks super interesting

In @scholarlyletter.bsky.social, we propose a counter-balance to written communication’s dominance on knowledge.

Balance can be achieved not by reducing the role of the written word, but by (re)adding something that has been lost:

thescholarlyletter.scholar-square.com/p/the-tyrann...

Academic publishing is the epitome of this: the publication of “new” research papers with the goal for these papers to ‘reach’ - that is, be read, consumed, and most importantly, cited - more widely than ever before.

These articles have maybe 5 years before becoming "out-of-date".

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The durability of writing means knowledge persists through time, but innovations in writing media (especially digital media) have increasingly favored the spread of knowledge across space (distance).

Knowledge's spread and reach have increased at the expense of it's durability through time.

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First, the obvious before we move on to more interesting ground:

Writing that counts as "knowledge" requires professional training i.e. academic writing.

Writing makes thought visible, which in turn makes abstraction and conceptualization possible.

Writing makes knowledge durable.

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Flexner believed that curiosity can be trusted to lead us somewhere meaningful. His view offers a compelling alternative to utility-obsessed research culture and inspired an essay a few weeks ago in The Scholarly Letter. Check it out here:

thescholarlyletter.scholar-square.com/p/the-value-...

If we aim to produce knowledge that is useful (that has "value") then it logically follows that there is some knowledge which has less value, or perhaps no value at all.

This is what Flexner addresses in his essay "The Value of Useless Knowledge".

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If curiosity has indeed been replaced in our way of doing research, then what has taken it’s place?

The reality today is science, research, and knowledge are viewed as tools for maximizing utility.

Instead of being curiosity-driven, research is now utility-driven.

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