In that specific example, Michael Gove (who said it) was a) wrong and b) a very unpopular prick. He mostly wanted people to stop pointing out that he didn’t know what he was doing, whilst he dismantled half of our education system in favour of some stupid ideological shit that didn’t work.
However, your main point definitely still stands - I only have to think back to school in the 80s/90s to where we quickly learnt to pretend to be stupider than we were. “Knowing too much” out loud and in public, was certainly one of the offences worthy of a beating from your peers.
Oddly, it was acceptable to answer things correctly if questioned directly ny a teacher, as long as you “just naturally knew them” rather than “actually tried hard and studied”.
For a lot of people, that attitude didn’t disappear in adulthood.
I don’t think it’s AI as such, I think it’s been about longer. A British politician famously said in 2017
I think that attitude is much more wide spread than just the uk.
In that specific example, Michael Gove (who said it) was a) wrong and b) a very unpopular prick. He mostly wanted people to stop pointing out that he didn’t know what he was doing, whilst he dismantled half of our education system in favour of some stupid ideological shit that didn’t work.
However, your main point definitely still stands - I only have to think back to school in the 80s/90s to where we quickly learnt to pretend to be stupider than we were. “Knowing too much” out loud and in public, was certainly one of the offences worthy of a beating from your peers.
Oddly, it was acceptable to answer things correctly if questioned directly ny a teacher, as long as you “just naturally knew them” rather than “actually tried hard and studied”.
For a lot of people, that attitude didn’t disappear in adulthood.
Totally agree about Gove, it’s very much a stopped clock being right two times a day.
That is true too. In the US anti intellectualism is very popular