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===Education as the ultimate [[finite game]]=== | ===Education as the ultimate [[finite game]]=== | ||
We | We learn from an early age — which in itself is kind of meta — that education, as academic progress, is a time-bound linear process: methodology, not a corpus. It is the application of technique to materials in a bounded environment to yield a result. Results can be tabulated, ranked, compared, and suitable candidates for adult life triaged. | ||
Our formal skills — adeptness at solving equations, or parsing Shakespeare — are examined, and our output reduced to a grade. | Our formal skills — adeptness at solving equations, or parsing Shakespeare — are examined, and our output reduced to a grade. |