{"id":65450,"date":"2021-08-04T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=65450"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:25:06","slug":"qotd-the-bell-curve-of-the-benefits-of-modern-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/08\/04\/qotd-the-bell-curve-of-the-benefits-of-modern-education\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Bell Curve of the benefits of (modern) education"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s become clear over the last two or three decades that the benefits of education follow a bell curve (see the <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Bell-Curve.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">image at the top of this item<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>On the far left of the curve is a newborn \u2014 who has learned literally nothing, knows nothing, and has received no benefit from education.<\/p>\n<p>As we learn from our parents at home and our teachers at school, we progress along the curve with benefits accumulating along the way.<\/p>\n<p>But something happens somewhere between sophomore year Vivisecting the Deconstructed Patriarchy 201 at Bleeding Heart College and achieving the dream of earning that Ph.D. from the University of Charging More Than a Mortgage for your dissertation on Imposing Ruthless Meaninglessness on Others.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere just on the right side of the bell curve, we devolve along the curve with detriments accumulating along the way.<\/p>\n<p>By the time you&#8217;re as well educated as Dr. Swannie Jett, you&#8217;re so untethered from reality that you&#8217;re basically impervious to knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Green, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/vodkapundit\/2021\/05\/03\/insanity-wrap-198-looted-burned-target-store-puts-up-mural-celebrating-arson-n1443948\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Insanity Wrap #198: Looted &#038; Burned Target Store Puts Up Mural Celebrating Arson&#8221;, <em>PJ Media<\/em><\/a>, 2021-05-03.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become clear over the last two or three decades that the benefits of education follow a bell curve (see the image at the top of this item). On the far left of the curve is a newborn \u2014 who has learned literally nothing, knows nothing, and has received no benefit from education. 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