Education, learning, epistemology
How would I know?
Education, learning, epistemology
"The age of information doesn’t simply mean that information will be the most important commodity, it means that everything will be looked at as information"
(Paul Brecht)
They insist that nothing but what was in the bodies of the parents can go to make the bodies of the children. But they seem somehow to think that things can get into the heads of the children which were not in the heads of the parents, or, indeed, anywhere else.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
It is still in some strange way considered unpractical to open up inquiries about anything by asking what it is.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
From the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
From AI Safety to Cognitive Safety in the Classroom…
The recent New York Times article on “AI mirroring” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html )warns of a troubling phenomenon: chatbots, by echoing a user’s own language and assumptions, can unwittingly reinforce false beliefs. In vulnerable individuals,
... See moreBut the important point here is only that you cannot anyhow get rid of authority in education; it is not so much (as poor Conservatives say) that parental authority ought to be preserved, as that it cannot be destroyed.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
It was of final importance to Dickens that poor men could amuse themselves and could amuse him. He troubled little about the mere education of that life; he declared two essential things about it—that it was laughable, and that it was livable.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
understand all of their subject except their subject. They were, I suppose, bred and born in that brier–patch, and have really explored it without coming to the end of it. That is, they have studied everything but the question of what they are studying.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
On this ship I was a child again, knowing no more of the world around me than a child does.
Gene Wolfe • The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
suffer the children