Intelligence is not just about basic comprehension, application, and regurgitation - which is why many university subjects and grades fail to accurately measure intelligence above a certain threshold or obscure talent.
Universities breed common themes, sausages with common flavours, pouring out of a machine a certain times of the year. There job to unpick what a student thinks they know and rebuild them how they are wanted to think. I long to be with the romantics and free thinkers
I agree. In some cases, particularly the humanities a university education makes people stupider, because it causes them to align with the educators preferred way of thinking, regardless of whether it aligns with reality or not. The psychological differences between men and women being an obvious example where reality is denied.
Universities breed common themes, sausages with common flavours, pouring out of a machine a certain times of the year. There job to unpick what a student thinks they know and rebuild them how they are wanted to think. I long to be with the romantics and free thinkers
I agree. In some cases, particularly the humanities a university education makes people stupider, because it causes them to align with the educators preferred way of thinking, regardless of whether it aligns with reality or not. The psychological differences between men and women being an obvious example where reality is denied.