What is the responsibility of our schools?
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Abstract
Last week we discussed the effect of the war on our young people and what can we do to make their adjustment to peacetime living easier.This week we are concerned with one institution in our country-the schools.What is the role of education in shaping a new generation of citizens ?What place does education have in a democratic country like Canada ?Education is clearly one of the potent forces in shaping future Canadians.What kind of education are we going to have?Can Education Change Human Nature?Never before in our history have we talked so much of the future.Since we live in times of world-wars and revolutions, it is quite natural that we often wonder whether our children will have a better time than we are having.To make sure that they will, we devise elaborate plans for a better Canada.There are many things in this Dominion which we hope to reform.Some peo- ple, however, are pretty cynical about our hopes for the future.What is the use?" they say."Things will never be any better since we cannot change human nature."It is, of course, quite true that men will always eat and drink, and love and hate; the essential facts of human life will remain the same as long as men inhabit this planet.But there is absolutely no reason to assume that our descendants will not be able to cope with the problems of life more successfully than we have done.That is why we should see to it that our children and young people are properly equipped to face their prob- lems.A large percentage of the population of Canada during the next half-century or so is living right among us, tearing down the dining-room curtains, and yelling when we want to sleep.By bring- ing them up properly, we ourselves can shape the future.Effective education is the way to do this.If we take the twin chil- dren of a rich man, and bring up one in a mansion, and his brother in the slums, it is very doubtful whether, after twenty years, we could recognize the latter by his aristocratic behaviour.Whatever may be the role heredity plays in moulding character, experts agree that education is of vast importance.Even conduct that seems completely "natural" proves to be, on further reflection, the result of education.If a perfectly ordinary man of thirty loses his job, he may be very unhappy, but we should consider it very unnatural for him to cry.But when our great-grandfather asked our great- grandmother to marry him, and she said at first no, it was a natural thing for him to go home and cry his eyes out.Any other conduct would have seemed to him unnatural.He was educated differently from us : that is why he behaved differently. Education Must Produce Useful CitizensIf education is so important then, we must see that our children get the right kind.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.023 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.018 | 0.021 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.009 | 0.017 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.048 | 0.024 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".