> I think there is an unfortunate temptation to look at the students and think "how stupid are they?"
I don't see any evidence of that in the comments on the original article or here. All of it seems to be focussed on the process of education and the habits it forms and the psychology of teacher/student (or more general authority figure) relations.
Yeah, I wasn't calling anyone out. Or if I was, I was calling out my first reaction.
But the point that I still think is an issue is that we don't know how much of the effect is about what the students _understand_ as much as it's about how they see the situation they are in. What incentives are there, and what is the student actually thinking?
I don't see any evidence of that in the comments on the original article or here. All of it seems to be focussed on the process of education and the habits it forms and the psychology of teacher/student (or more general authority figure) relations.