Posted by Sebastian Flyte on September 8, 2013, at 5:10:22
In reply to Re: how psychiatrists use 'crazy', posted by sigismund on September 5, 2013, at 17:47:18
I ask because I myself have some radical opinions. All of them are shared by many. I'm not a minority of one, but they may still be dismissed as crazy by the majority. Furthermore, holding these opinions has made life more difficult for me; I don't fit in. I have held these opinions since adolescence.
1. I believe, along with Denham Harmon and David Sinclair, that research in the biology of aging is criminally underfunded.
2. I believe that formal education is inefficient and obscenely overpriced. I've never benefited from classroom instruction. As a result I regard both uni admins and professors as criminals.
3. I believe that the use of grades and extracurriculars in elite uni admissions decisions as opposed to tests only, as the rest of the world does it, results in an American elite which is very pushy and relatively dumb.
poster:Sebastian Flyte
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