Ordinary Banana

did you ever implement something using bubble sort as a joke and it accidentally became public policy for decades https://twitter.com/woke8yearold/status/999317345574248448 …

Sometimes I think your whole life is an extended subtweet against schooling. I quite enjoyed mine tbh. I can objectively appreciate the prison arguments, but it's a bit overdone. More like babysitting than prison.

Also, American public schools do seem to be peculiarly terrible. I recall being vaguely terrified of them watching American school shows on TV as a kid.

that’s funny I taught at an indian private high school and the kids were so ritualistically well-behaved it scared me

like a military school

That's just overall Indian culture, not the schooling effect. Military affect is the uniforms. On the playground etc, Indian kids are (or used to be) vastly more free-form/wild than American.

This may sound weird, but the fundamental wild-kids sanity of pre-90s Indian school culture was due to the absence of dating and all its pressures. Kids had space to be kids. For eg there was no real jocks-vs-nerds toxic dynamic.