I’m so fortunate that most of my teachers let me read in the back
Looking back on it, it’s pretty horrifying how little I learned from the ages of 3-17 that wasn’t just a function of reading often or writing. So many wasted hours that weren’t one of those two activities, home schoolers might be onto something.
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I guess my brain is just too smooth for you genius boys but I definitely think I got a lot out of talking to people...... and doing stuff
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I'm intrigued by homeschooling, but for the opposite reason. School is a lot of reading and studying set material. When I look back, I learned the most by actively doing things that intrigued me: making model rockets, playing fantasy baseball, exploring USENET/IRC, ...
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I agree with your take fwiw, just wasn’t / am still not a “maker”. Books and writing have always been the atomic unit of things I’m working on or through
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scary to think about this, I do the same with food all the time... very hard to believe no damage was done eating like shit for the first 18 years of life?
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very sympathetic for extreme physical isolation in education for this reason.
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The system needs to stop wasting the lives of young people
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I had a similar long introspection before starting Sora Once I realized, it was just...wow
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I was homeschooled and my mom cut out a lot of unnecessary stuff, and even so most of what I learned was through self-directed reading
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