How Modern Education Corrupts Knowledge with Shallow Reasoning

by Juan

October 21, 2013 3 minutes • 569 words

Table of contents

The Internet Changes Everything
Update 2024: Superphysics Youtube Channel

In course of creating the new economic science, I’ve always wondered how the false beliefs of the Marginal Revolution were able to formalize themselves into the corrupted, dismal science called Modern Economics.

Adam-Smith

Without a doubt, it was the spirit of monopoly which originally invented and propagated this doctrine. Those who first taught it were by no means such fools as those who believed it. In every country, it is always the people’s interest to buy whatever they want the cheapest. This proposition is so very manifest that it is ridiculous to take any pains to prove it. It could never have been questioned had not the sophistry of merchants and manufacturers confounded the common sense of mankind. Their interest is directly opposite of the people’s interest.

The Wealth of Nations

Descartes

But, so that the sophists will not be able to exercise their superfluous subtleties, note that I do not thereby say that rectilinear motion can take place in an instant. Instead, I only say that all that is required to produce it is found in bodies in each instant that might be determined while they are moving, and not all that is required to produce circular motion.

The World

So far, I’ve pointed it to the centralized educational system in prestigious schools.

The students who were being educated in these schools did not find it in their interest to challenge the sophistry that was being fed to them by noted economists such as Alfred Marshall and Paul Samuelson.

But what would give these economists power over the minds of others?

The structure of private education is that it relies on contributions from wealthy individuals.

Public research, on the other hand, requires mass consensus. For example, Ptolemy’s geocentric system was accepted and unchallenged because everyone had the same notions.

The ideas propagated by Marshall and Samuelson empowers the wealthy and also matches the selfish nature of people in general.

Who would be bold enough to intellectually challenge the mass consensus when there was no internet to voice out dissenting opinions?

The Internet Changes Everything

The current game changer is the empowerment given by the internet in both allowing a person to get and give information.

No longer does society need to be fed information only from books, pamphlets, or teachings from experts from prestigious schools or government research.

Nowadays, people can throw information up on the web and let others decide which is good and bad, thanks to search engines and social networks. It is now possible to learn technical skills from Youtube at the fraction of the cost and time as in a technical school.

The internet allows new educational models to be created which can have advantages over the monopolistic and expensive university system of the past. In this way, sophistry and false beliefs will have a much harder time of spreading themselves, and in contrast, good ideas that benefit people can spread faster.

In fact, the internet is the main method of how we push forward with Superphysics and spread its ideas and solutions, instead of getting bogged down trying to get it published in academic journals which have a blind belief on outdated assumptions from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Update 2024: Superphysics Youtube Channel

In line with this advocacy, we have created a YouTube channel for Superphysics where we upload our research and findings so that they can reach and benefit more people.