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Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring - by Scott Alexander

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Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring ... Scott Alexander Mar 22, 2022 191 598 2 Share I. Erik Hoel has an interesting new essay, Why We Stopped Making Einsteins . It argues that an apparent decline in great minds is caused by the replacement of aristocratic tutoring by ordinary education. Hoel worries we’re running out of geniuses: Consider how rare true world-historic geniuses are now-a-days, and how different it was in the past. In “ Where Have All the Great Books Gone? ” Tanner Greer uses Oswald Spengler, the original chronicler of the decline of genius back in 1914, to point out our curren

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