re: #166 calochortus

You need revolution a lot of the time, and we’ll need it more and more often as time goes on.

To give a good example, medical schools are still teaching in mostly the same way that they were fifty years ago, but they’re teaching, literally, eight times the information. The amount of time hasn’t really increased— students have turned to technology to help them absorb the information enough to pass the tests, but the system is obviously flawed. However, it is really difficult to change because of the years the administrators and senior faculty have invested in the old ways, and the amount of work it’d take to come up with real curricula.

It is much easier, ironically, to transform the teaching of the non-sciences than it is the sciences. Still very hard, though.

We are about fifty revolutions behind, by my count.