I’m sitting here listening to a work training thing where people from the training department at the corporate level — specifically about Google Cloud Platform — and all I can think about is how much fucking hand-holding everyone needs to figure out even the most insignificant things, navigation of the pages, all the different canned learning from the different learning sites, and how to reach out to different community chat rooms and forums and shit. No one feels like they can just start playing with it and learning it on their own. They have to have a system, or a book, or an outline, or a mentor.
How the hell do these people survive in the tech world?!
Seriously, this is more of a commentary on the natural of oppressive educational practices that create people 100% dependent on the system because the people that created and run the system want them to be dependent on them. Their livelihood depends on it. This is Friere’s basic premise in Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
People seem incapable of expending energy to organize and own their own learning so they throw their hands up and say, “Well, not a Udemy on it so I just can’t learn it” or whatever.
Plus people spend so much fucking time creating learning platforms rather than just getting solid, edited, good data out there that would go into the platform. In fact, you’ll get updates about the platform, but the content is ancient and unusable. The energy is going into making the platform better, not the content, which is completely ass-backwards. People being paid for “training” are “curating” the sources of the knowledge, which I understand, but imagine a world where everyone is taught from the moment they can walk how to figure out and filter everything themselves, where the scientific method is a way of life, not just for scientists, where critical thinking and respectable dissension is rewarded instead of trends and dogma.