Intellectual work now faces a constant downward pull toward relaxed standards
Evidence
In the future, these questions may become extremely acute and it will be necessary to resist the tendency to render easy that which cannot become easy without being distorted. If our aim is to produce a new stratum of intellectuals, including those capable of the highest degree of specialisation, from a social group which has not traditionally developed the appropriate attitudes, then we have unprecedented difficulties to overcome. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 370 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
Related
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- Everyone possesses intellectual activity; intellectuals are a trained social stratum, not a separate species (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Making education artificially easy distorts the training needed for genuine intellectual work.
#corroborates(0.85) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 370 - Creating new intellectual strata from unprepared groups faces unprecedented difficulty
#complicates(0.75)