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*Peeking in* But it is exactly the core problem. The core problem is the organizational problems w/schooling, priv and pub

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And there is variance on this between countries, but e.g. where I'm from the worst teachers are rated the best.

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This is definitely a huge problem and the system is sufficiently unsure of what makes a "good" teacher that efforts to…

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improve the situation often make it worse. Scary, authoritarian teachers can easily be the default because you can get…

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away with being a crap educator if you can force output from a class. Terrible. At least you usually have a variety of…

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teachers over time, though. Most people have had at least a few that they really liked our connected with. If …

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home schooling was the norm, huge numbers of kids would be stuck with a parent and it would be pure luck if it worked.

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But as Ian says, there are ways to fix schooling... by making it not be like schooling.

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That would be my instinctual approach; I do believe there is a value in professional educators (but wife=teacher 😉).

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what I don't get is why we want to have kids raised by teachers mostly. And minus ec. pressure, parents are happy.

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Behavioral control & ideology seem to be prime reasons. Even (or maybe especially) in Norway, I experienced that a lot.

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in my construction of reality booklet (unpublished) I use primary school as an example of indoctrination.

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I really think that education is secondary, at best. If it was important, you wouldn't have so many functional illits

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I think that turning out little obedient fuckers is killing us. Sit down, give the textbook answer, raise your hand...

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I still to this day run into people remembering me from philosophy class 8 years ago because I stood on a table.

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schooling suited to creating drones for business, not citizens for democracies.

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And therein lies the problem - the political motivation. Freed from that, things could be much better.

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