As an adult, when I want to learn something, I take on a related project with a goal I care about and go find the answer to my questions on it every step of the way. This feels clearly like the best way to learn, and I don't understand why basically all of school isn't like this
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There's at least some reason to believe this is a distinctly bad way to learn for many people: asec.purdue.edu/LCT/HBCU/docum
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I'm not sure how much I'm unique, but i *do* strongly prefer having an expert at close hand to ask questions of for everything when I'm going through one of my projects, I wonder if that would satisfy the conditions for the research
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Argos Translate started as me trying to learn machine learning
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School is not about learning.
To the extent it is, it's not about learning what it claims to be teaching.
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Yeah school is primarily focused on "discipline" (read: meek submission to authority) with a thin veneer of being about other things dropped over it. It's not even a very effective disguise, and a lot of teachers just outright go mask off about it.
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Because the whole premise is children have bad goals and won’t learn on their own
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1. More difficult to systematize.
2. The education system is still running on an outdated "infrastructure", so to say. I think things are changing for the better but it's still early days.
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the greatest trick the school system ever pulled was convincing people that you can learn something by "studying" it
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my high school was like this and stands in my head as like the one counterexample to all school being bad
they just handed us the grad standards book and said 'come up with a years worth of projects to cover this material' and then helped us when we asked
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