Eugine_Nier comments on George Orwell's Prelude on Politics Is The Mind Killer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 22 April 2012 01:03:41AM *  3 points [-]

Such as public backlash: I cannot imagine teachers being stupid enough to risk the public backlash that opposing such a reform would cause

Well, adjust you're priors appropriately.

Unless teachers in the USA already had such a low social image that they would not care about degrading it further.

Or rather they have such a high social image that the people who aren't paying much attention react the same way you just did.

Comment author: [deleted] 22 April 2012 01:13:57AM 1 point [-]

Or rather they have such a high social image that the people who aren't paying attention react the same way you just did.

By all accounts, teachers in the USA are the dregs of society: very badly paid, subjected to unreasonable demands of moral upstanding, and powerless in front of the students, the administration, and the parents.