{"id":1266,"date":"2009-01-25T06:19:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T11:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2009-01-25T06:19:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T11:19:11","slug":"are-you-the-keymaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1266","title":{"rendered":"Are You the Keymaster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mareserinitatis.livejournal.com\/563404.html\">Gatekeeping<\/a> at Faraday&#8217;s Cage<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]t bothered her that in the sciences and engineering there are often classes used as &#8220;weeders&#8221;, the principal being that the &#8220;unfit&#8221; are not able to survive the rigors of the fundamentals classes and will drop out before too much time and money has been invested by either party.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher called this &#8220;gatekeeping&#8221;. It&#8217;s a concept with which I am familiar because, unfortunately, I&#8217;ve been on both ends of it. I also have a lot of mixed feelings on the topic, and it helped me to hear that this philosophy bothers other people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gatekeeping at Faraday&#8217;s Cage [I]t bothered her that in the sciences and engineering there are often classes used as &#8220;weeders&#8221;, the principal being that the &#8220;unfit&#8221; are not able to survive the rigors of the fundamentals classes and will drop &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1266\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,35,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-other-science","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}