Teenagers aren't inherently aimless know-nothings; you typically have to waste their time for years before they finally internalize that nothing they could with it matters.
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Yeesh, the replies. We sequester these young people in very low info density environments and then use the ignorance we've imposed on them as evidence of their inherent incompetence — and the need for yet more schooling.https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1216051738802782210 …
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It's crazy. For smart kids most of a school day is just waiting.https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1210027499222159362 …
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It's just astonishing that the prime hours of the prime years of children's lives are not better spent. Adults with no imagination harm them all. Every time I read about someone great, its interesting what they were doing with that time instead. It's rarely school.
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Low meaning density as well. The school system implies “don’t even try to matter before you’re 22. Then, start with no practice.”
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The status quo bias is also incredibly strong. If we were constructing an educational system from scratch, a lot of these same people would strenuously object to plowing >100k per student into barely serviceable and frequently abusive educational environment for decades.
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*Decade plus. But, since this is what was normal when they were kids, it's now obviously The Only Way.
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Bookwise I've had John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us Down also recommended to me. On my reading list.pic.twitter.com/LodH5EIbuE
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Perhaps the objection is less to pulling kids out of classroom than to the imposition of mercantilism as the default worldview
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But that’s the thing... he was suggesting we give them experience to shape that belief one way or the other. Force-fed learning through books and lecture is instilling default world views, experience does the opposite.
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