"So we end up populating what we call the intelligentsia with people who are delusional, literally mentally deranged, simply because they never have to pay for the consequences of their actions, repeating modernist slogans stripped of all depth.
In general, when you hear someone invoking abstract modernistic notions, you can assume that they got some education (but not enough, or in the wrong discipline) and too little accountability [...]
Those who don't take risks should never be involved in making decisions!"
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb: On Neocons and their Mental Defects
Dieser Blog-Beitrag von H. Richert erschien zuerst auf TRLT . Lies hier den Original-Artikel "Nassim Taleb about our Educational System".