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?
Crispin’s book chapter on the nature of truth ... Do different uses of the word “truth” have a family resemblance? ... The challenge of...
The fight, and meta-fight, in philosophy over trans issues ... David's essay on philosophy and activism ... The admonition to "go read the literature"...
E. John Winner and Dan Kaufman (Electric Agora) talk about the Marx Brothers and their relationship to American Comedy. 1:30 Vaudeville, Burlesque, and Musical...