Dumber

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:52 am, June 18th, 2023 - 29 commentsCategories: education, labour, political parties, tertiary education - Tags:New Zealand is not an intellectual or innovation powerhouse but the rapid decline of our entire tertiary education is a tragedy. This affects some regional centres that have relied on this massive economic and social driver more than others. The fact that reading that sentence seems unreal is a measure of how far down we hold tertiary education now. Neither help in the attractiveness or financial stability of tertiary education. The result of course is that we are dumber, making the same dumb stuff, too dumb to make smart policy, dumb enough not to argue or protest, and too dumb to care that we are indeed dumber.