the social institutions to which a child is exposed has what size effect on their character as adults
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of course im not saying that the instutitions were actually remotely effective in effecting some kind of positive character. but they were trying. even if only lip service it was still made
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idk. this seems like a lot. extremely object level 1. wonder how boy scouts is these days 2. imagining a broader alternative to school than just homeschooling 3. gonna have Adventure Summer Camps for kids with uncle
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It's the divestment of Catholicism from our schools.
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never had that in the US at scale really, certainly not universally other schools did it as well
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Because 'who are we to tell kids how to live' perhaps
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Is this true? I'd thought the answer was reverse - since more people are getting educated, process gets more competitive/ industrialised, which means focus on humane decreases at the average. However it's still strong in the elite schools, because only they can afford it?
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Fwiw I also looked at this as the interplay between "shore up the bottom" strategies that institutions apply at scale, vs the more innovative "strategies to win" here, that somewhat answers this particular problem re schools -https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/strategy-decay-as-an-institutional …
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Personally, I think that it’s mostly the way that we class gate in what we would like to believe is a meritocratic society. I think America is an aristocracy pretending to be a meritocracy and this is how that looks.
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