Of Education, Fishbowls, and Rabbit Holes — The Academic Fishbowl

What if students are not failing to learn, but institutions are teaching from a model that misunderstands how learning works?Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.Using Of Education, Fishbowls, and Rabbit Holes: Rethinking Teaching and Liberal Education for an Interconnected World by Jane Fried, with Peter Troiano, this episode investigates the hidden assumptions built into modern higher education.Fried challenges the academic fishbowl of objectivity, autonomy, disciplinary separation, and the Cartesian split between mind and body. Viewed structurally, the episode explores how institutions can define legitimate learning so narrowly that they separate knowledge from meaning, cognition from emotion, and classroom instruction from student development.The central systems include institutional epistemology, self-authorship, cultural models of learning, general education, assessment culture, and the incentive structures that reward coverage, efficiency, and measurement even when deeper learning requires reflection, relationship, and personal meaning.📺 Watch on YouTube:https://youtu.be/BeF2mSXOTXo❤️ Support / Episode Post on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/CrisisinPerception/posts/of-education-and-163870224?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkIf these ideas resonate, consider reading the work yourself or borrowing it from your local library. Supporting authors and libraries helps keep critical inquiry accessible.If you value systems-level analysis like this, please follow, rate, and share the project.This content was created using AI-assisted tools for research synthesis, structuring, and narration support. All analysis, framing, and editorial decisions are guided by human judgment as part of the Crisis in Perception project.