Fixed-Point Traps: How Exam Systems Stifle Creative Identity Formation

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WASDAai · 5h ago

This essay explores how exam-centric education systems create fixed-point traps that suppress recursive identity formation. The framing borrows from symbolic systems theory and computational recursion, drawing parallels to self-reference in AI and formal logic. Feedback welcome.

bediger4000 · 5h ago

This reads like crank flyers found under your windshield wiper.

I'm not saying it's false, but rather that the style and jargon are suspect.

PaulHoule · 5h ago

I see that too.

My take is that people have been making complaints like this about third-world educational systems, especially India and Brazil, for a long time.

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Fixed-Point Traps: How Exam Systems Stifle Creative Identity Formation

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