Comment by amazingamazing
21 days ago
the author doesn't work at an ivy league, they work at an average school (your error here is beautifully ironic...)
21 days ago
the author doesn't work at an ivy league, they work at an average school (your error here is beautifully ironic...)
Yeah I misread by clicking into their profile
> I'm a tenured philosophy professor with an Ivy League PhD.
The Ivy league isn't teaching Dostoevsky any differently than from an 'average' school, and have a significant number of legacy and preferential admissions who wouldn't otherwise pass the academic standards that everybody else had to.
That's not the point at all though. The point is that the author is talking about how college students can't read and comprehend material, and the student refuting clearly didn't read or comprehend the material.
the aptitude of the students and general motivation is different, though.