Well I can tell you that if you go to a class and are given 2 +2 and answer 5 it will be counted as wrong, because the question is 2 and 2 with no decimals added equals 4.
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That's because the only classes you can conceptualize for me are elementary ones.
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Well there must be a base to form everything else. I just pray that you don’t do any job that has peoples lives in danger such as medicine, pilot, architect or structural engineer. Also stay away from explosives too.
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I think the worst thing about this is how incredibly condescending these people are who seem to think they're that much smarter than the masses Like you seriously, honestly think the point of primary school education is to actively teach people what 2+2 is
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Like this fruity hippie ivory tower stuff is actually going to lead to kids not knowing that 2+2=4 Because you genuinely believe that the reason you and I know it is a teacher had to program that information into our dumb stupid empty brains
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(I cringe whenever I think about elementary school teachers doing "math drills" and parents approvingly thinking of this as "real learning" There's no benefit to it at all except rewarding students for obedience by making them sit through something unpleasant)
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Rote memorization good critical thinking bad
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“Rote memorization good critical thinking bad.” Is a set of letters that are arranged in a way to sounds, that equals words which are given meaning. In order for any of this sentence to make since some memorization had to occur.
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No, not really I didn't go through any conscious process of memorization to learn to read, I just did (I don't even remember learning it)
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That may be somewhat unusual, but that's definitely true of how all of us learned to talk Indeed, it's actually very difficult to imagine how you would go through primary language acquisition if it weren't "hardwired" (the GPT AI stuff is trying to figure it out)
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I'm not a hardcore unschooler who thinks that all conscious directed learning is bad, far from it But I think there's some really deeply baked-in assumptions about how the human brain works in the Western education system that really aren't true and are clearly damaging
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This idea that you'd be a drooling husk with no motivation and no knowledge and no reasoning capacity if someone wasn't standing there yelling at you and TEACHING you It's deeply insulting to the student, it's one reason so many students hate school so viscerally
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Tell me about it. I learned nothing from school. As you can clearly see, I suppose...
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