February
27
Ep. 0253: “Academia is a Racket”: 13 Problems with Conventional Academia
From segments recorded during multiple drives, CJ pieced together his first Silver Bullet episode in over 6 months (and his longest Silver Bullet episode ever), in which he goes over in detail 13 of his biggest complaints about academia, based on his observations & experience from having been a student in it for 6 years & a teacher in it for 16 years.
Join CJ as he discusses the following problems with modern conventional academia:
- No real market feedback mechanism to indicate whether a “good education” is being provided.
- Overspecialization.
- Rigid credentialism.
- Too many courses online (especially at the intro/gen-ed level.)
- Excessive disability accommodations.
- Private-sector profiteering (off a captive audience & cartelized, non-competitive system.)
- Administrative bloat.
- A focus on arbitrary metrics that can be juked/gamed.
- Degree inflation.
- The accreditation agencies functioning as a cartel enforcer to artificially restrict entry & reduce competition.
- Ideology baked into most (if not all) disciplines, in many cases for over a century.
- The adversarial relationship often automatically created between student & teacher.
- State & corporate influence & control.
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