/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15534059
It’s probably a combination of things.
-the bureaucratization of education making it so that people cannot develop any sort of human connection to the material and link it to their real lives in a meaningful way. Since it’s all just presented an inhuman data points to internalize. disenfranchising them from the whole learning process.
-an anti intellectual culture in America going back to its founding. The people groups that came over from the British isles and which formed all the American regional cultures had some sort of distaste for intellectual or didn’t value academics. They were all either middle class or otherwise disenfranchised and peripheral from the core British society. meaning they didn’t like intellectuals since they were used by were all of the upper class. Meaning Americans have hard time thinking about abstract philosophic concepts
-cultural change after ww2 amongst the boomer generation of disliking judging people or having standards for others.
-lack of social mechanisms by which people can enrich their lives and use to push themselves.
-higher education becoming rotted out from the inside by woke shit and bureaucracy meaning people learn how to appease the standards of people in school rather than actually learning how to solve problems in the real world.