Pernicious pedagogy

3) The Propaganda Times (formerly kn0wn as NYT) article misses that those who can't do can't do for a reason, an epistemological reason: they often know the wrong things.

So we make pple who know the wrong things teach the wrong things for the sake of "pedagogy". This is fraud.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) 28 August 2018

I once knew a blowhard teacher who got an economics class at a high school. He had never taught the subject before. Two days into the course, he had a quiz for the students. One of the "correct" answers on the multiple choice questions was: Scarcity is just another term for a ... shortage.

Fortunately for the students, he was replaced the next day.