Max

“Children acquire spoken language instinctively but written language only by the sweat of their brow, because spoken language has been a feature of human life for tens or hundreds of millennia whereas written language is a recent and slow-spreading invention.”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“The university’s retreat from public benefits damaged their independence as institutions. It damaged their intellectual ability to see over the horizon to the next economy and society and not just adapt to the current one. The retreat damaged their financial solvency, as it undermined the case for public good provision on which public universities depended to offer high-quality education on a mass scale. The public university could not be heard arguing that it absolutely had to offer mass quality. What good were the educated masses in a tech age when all the valuable workers could fit onto the Google bus?”
― Christopher Newfield, The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them

“When considering automation, therefore, it is wrong to compare the abilities of a single human driver to that of a single self-driving car, or of a single human doctor to that of a single AI doctor. Rather, we should compare the abilities of a collection of human individuals to the abilities of an integrated network.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“No learning rule can be entirely devoid of theoretical content nor can the tabula ever be completely rasa.” 13”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature