The longer I spend apart from formal education as a context, the more alien and intractable it strikes me. Talking with a thoughtful science teacher today, I could only (uselessly) answer his earnest questions with variations on "…but that won't work without an authentic need…"
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I'm sort of amused at my assumed helplessness? I've gone from being very excited about trying to help to now finding the whole situation impossible and aversive. Oops! Maybe I'll find some way to swing back someday…
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Part of what makes this situation so disorienting is that most people automatically situate my current work (memory systems) in formal educational settings, while my interest is in the opposite! AFAICT such contexts are usually quite poorly suited to these systems.
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Academic bookshops worth browsing...university works too slow...
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I think formal education is unavoidably pretty unpleasant
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Almost all of the discussion of education, especially online education, seems to ignore an obvious and vital fact. A fact that it's considered bad form to mention in education circles.
Which is that education is boring.
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As someone who learned mathematics as an art rather than as a formal system, this rings so true! I remember how excited I was to learn imaginary numbers because I really cared about solving x^2+1=0!
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