Here’s a weird one for you: I wish I could talk about all that’s wrong with modern/compulsory education. But I have too many feelings and don’t know what to say that hasn’t been said better by others. Instead, a request ⇊
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Replying to @KevinSimler
I think “compulsory education” ought to sound about as absurd as “compulsory joy”.
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Replying to @diviacaroline @KevinSimler
More like, "compulsory enlargement." It's true that it's quite bad if babies don't get bigger, and grownups need food too. But standardized institutions devoted to making the babies bigger (as a target, not a metric) are going to mess them up spectacularly, in obvious ways.
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Replying to @ben_r_hoffman @KevinSimler
I think it’s worse than that. Force-feeding someone will at least enlarge them. Forcing the median kid to “learn math” gets the kit to verbally overshadow of many of the relevant concepts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal_overshadowing …
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dear god have i been verbally overshadowing everything in my life??... 
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