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Re:What Oxford taught me about posh people by sokoloff on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @08:34AM (#27353494)
> The mental health and motivational/pedagogical thinking is also stuck in the 19th century. Some of this does need to adapt to today's students.

If it adapts to pedagogic techniques now known to be more effective, that’s a good thing. If it instead adapts to changes in the students themselves, I think that’s more likely to be bad than good, or is at a minimum not obviously good.

Re:What Oxford taught me about posh people by pjc50 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @09:14AM (#27353890)
Just because some round pegs have arrived, doesn't mean we should stop hammering them into these square holes!

Obviously there have been changes in the students over the years, not least the fact that the universities now admit women and Catholics. There have also been far broader changes in society; it wouldn't be illegal for Turing to be gay in the present Cambridge.