Robert Gressis (California State Northridge) and Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) hae a wide-ranging conversation about the (fraught?) relationship between schooling, learning, and A-F grading. The discussion centers around an essay Currie-Knight wrote called Against the Grade Economy: https://theelectricagora.com/2020/12/26/against-the-grade-economy/
00:02:36 Rob and Kevin make small talk
00:07:01 Kevin describes and laments the grade economy
00:36:07 What's the relationship between grades and learning?
00:57:19 Bryan Caplan's "The Case Against Education" and how it has traumatized Rob
01:05:58 Unschooling
01:21:35 If schools sucks so much, how did Rob and Kevin learn?
The new issue of Milton's comic book, Thompson Heller: Detective Interstellar ... Christopher Hitchens' influence on Milton's comic ... The anxieties of robot personhood...
Moti Gorin (Colorado State) talks with Holly Lawford-Smith (University of Melbourne) about her new book, "Gender Critical Feminism" (Oxford University Press).
The origins of "standpoint theory" ... Are Dan and Crispin white? ... Defining standpoint theory ... Dan: Standpoint theory presents an irrefutable hypothesis ......