If you take revealed preferences seriously, it's possible that the most important parts of the school experience are the ones that adults will willingly choose to subject themselves to. This leads me to the terrifying thought that I may have underestimated gym class.
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(I apologize for somewhat quirky-for-me philosophizing on this issue. Having children is really a trip, particularly if you hear "Why do I have to go to school today?" and decide to take it maximally seriously.)
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It’s the latter.
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From the age of 5 until I was 17, I knew exactly what I wanted to bro as an adult - immunology research. I maxed out available Bio courses at my high school, including Neuroscience, but I didn’t really have any choices in subject matter except around the edges 1/2
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But then I did a postgrad year at a boarding school that offered classes like “Capitalism and its Critics” and “Existentialism and Literature,” and in the last week of classes I realised that I didn’t know what the inside of the science building looked like 2/2
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It never occurred to me that building cool stuff people can use now, and solving issues that are important to me was a possibility so I wanted to be an astrophysicist. Still love that field, but no chance I’m going to work in it in a traditional sense now.
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School failed me massively in that regard as it framed my possible prospects as work in a boring company or work in medicine, nothing else. I never tried much in school either, so the options for “exceptional” kids(research, CS, arts) were never laid out for me as possible.
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