https://twitter.com/nateffo/status/1630927086213906434?s=46&t=RKQIqRrKzVps835SSEmebA
Good thread
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Anyone who calls themselves a freethinker is a total asshole.
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One of my college roommates was in the Young Republicans club (or whatever it was called) freshman year and in club’s yearbook picture, he was listed as “Alex P. Keaton.”
Different times.
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I like how he repeatedly points out that all he did is google the author and all this shit pops up right there. Google must be too woke now for NYT to use.
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Why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?
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I fucking knew that account was bullshit. Im glad patients spoke up about it.
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Pitchbot.
Ok, I read the op-ed. The headline is clickbait, though not completely. Basically, the author teaches literature to inmates and says it’s awesome because they pay attention, are engaged and respectful, and there’s no real option to cheat assignments. College kids, on the other hand, have no attention span because of cell phones, have tons of resources to engage in “casual cheating,” and don’t have the same (read: worse) perspective that the inmates do.
What she’s saying without really admitting, is that the inmates are - in her eyes - better students because they have nothing else going on in their lives. She wishes everyone would be like them, but doesn’t totally acknowledge that people who voluntarily take a literature class where it’s the only positive thing in their lives are naturally going to be more committed to learning and have an easier time paying attention.
The headline is bad because she’s not saying college should be more like prison, but rather college students should be more like prison students.
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If When GenZ comes to power and they wipe out all the olds, they will be justified.
The problem is that freedom and options will always make less noble pursuits, like JPEGS and drugs, more fun than reading and learning.
There isn’t really a fix for it.
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lol, we already have 5 colleges like that in the US, and if you are a stellar student in HS, you can go there for free!
They are pretty similar to prison, actually, and when you graduate, you are basically on probation for at least four years while you work to pay back that free college.
West Point
Annapolis
Air Force Academy
Merchant Marine Academy
Coast Guard Academy
To be fair, because of my then-undiagnosed ADHD, I probably wouldn’t have made it through a non-prison-like college. Obviously not everyone, but for me, I don’t think I’d ever be able to manage a civilian college now.
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