Friday, March 12, 2010
"Artificial Stupidity"
I've heard this story or something similar once before.
Still, I think it's worth revisiting from time to time...
Still, I think it's worth revisiting from time to time...
This is from Thomas Sowell at JBS.org. The actual story is there also:
"This little episode revealed how conditioned we have become, responding like Pavlov's dog when we hear a certain sound — in this case, the sound of some politically correct crusade.
People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Much of the stupidity we see today is induced by our educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities. In a high-tech age that has seen the creation of artificial intelligence by computers, we are also seeing the creation of artificial stupidity by people who call themselves educators."
