How Mainstream Education Pushes People to Bullshit
Channel: Alex Zorach
Date: 2015-01-23

I think it's a virtue to admit when you don't know something.  Pretending you know something when you don't can spread misinformation and harm people. Here I explain how most education punishes people for admitting that they don't know something, and rewards bullshitting--and I conclude with simple ways to adjust our educational system to encourage people to admit when they don't know things.