ultimately i’m grateful for the friends i made in the class I ended up in. there were still bright kids in class who it was really fun to hang out with, and a statistically unusual number of my classmates have gotten phds or gone on to pretty deep research…
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remote school *could have been* and should have been an opening up of education into a lifelong process of pursuing one’s interests, refining one’s skills, and learning about the world around you instead, zoom and ai enabled cameras monopolized your attention & gaze. even worse!
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we had a pandemic before, you know, the schooling solution was books, and outdoor classes when the weather abided. (and sweaters!) i honestly fucking weep for this generation. they have all of this technology and it is being put to use melting their brains.
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the quicker people build lifelong education into a parallel system you can seriously opt-in to in lieu of the mainline k-12-college-grad school legible education, the better. i am starting to feel like it is pretty mission critical; like education is getting profoundly bad
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a badge system wherein you are a proven badass in projects of certain categories, like earning your Jump Wings as a parachutist
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people complaining this thread is boring, Sorry! it was not intended to go viral. just thought it would be a good time to talk about something i had experienced. i am sensitive to when learning resources are shut down, but maybe things are still ok (?) in the NYC schoolsystem
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I think it might be more damaging to look at kids and think “human capital”
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Don’t be pedantic. She’s clearly talking about creating environments for talented kids to flourish into adults with their full potential and passion, not sending children into child labor work camps.
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It may be too cynical and not really true at all, but in some sense, lower education 4-18 seems about creating a usable workforce. If it was ever about human development and flourishing, that purpose seems long lost. Maybe different per country.


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