I think we’re excessively surprised as to what happens if you e.g. read literally every book in the library on WWII. Intuitively, we know what is likely to happen. We discount the possibility of it happening for a 10 year old to protect our understanding of the status of adults.https://twitter.com/Halsrethink/status/1259694101865418752 …
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“... that for the effort you’re about to spend on League of Legends you could, and I’m going to just throw this possibility out there, create something that society values in the hundreds of thousands of dollar range. Just a thought; part-time job at McDonalds also an option.”
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“That sounds like a ludicrous hypothetical.” I literally know high school students who sold mid $X0k of e-books which were not obviously different in artifact character than a well-executed school project, and I think I have a really well-calibrated understanding of SaaS math.
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Part of the problem is "let's let kids be kids" is when the kids internalize the message of "don't create". Once learned, that is hard to turn around.
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As someone who went through that sort of early exposure (particularly to politics and intl affairs) and is now a dad, I’m not keen on this. It made my life worse, as I struggled to understand why my peers were not interested / did not understand / did not agree.
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I guess it depends a lot on one’s socioeconomic status and institutional possibilities. I was a working-class kid in a working-class area going to working-class schools.
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I think that's supposed to be a benefit of the "Unschooling" movement. Help kids find these topics, and let them really dig into things they are passionate about
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