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'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, ...
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
