This defense of home schooling references one of @paulg’s essays, @bryan_caplan’s Case Against Education and would interest @webdevMason and @Ed_Realisthttps://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1258861269928620033 …
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Replying to @BarryPCotter @paulg and
Surreal that homeschooling must be defended against schooling, a known sinkhole for communal money & child despair. We do it because it frees up the workforce. It operates on a day-to-day basis on internal feedback loops that have little to do w/ children. This isn't well-hidden.
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Replying to @webdevMason @BarryPCotter and
I spent a stint assuming that schools were trying to turn children into the "wrong" thing but, frankly, even if they are they're not doing any of it effectively. It's a place for kids to twiddle their thumbs while mom and dad work, with a calcified corporate hierarchy doing admin
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Replying to @webdevMason @paulg and
@robinhanson thinks they succeed at training children to sit for long periods, be ordered around, do work they don’t see any purpose in and endure ranking and domination. Seems to work. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/04/school-is-to-submit.html …1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
They have to succeed at that; otherwise, it's impossible for 1-2 adults to manage 20-30+ children.
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