Ugh. Too relatable. Never had access to a gifted program, but had a shrink by 14. I can't even remember when I started just phoning it in, and it's taken most of my adult life to learn how to stop. https://twitter.com/sknthla/status/988848219898642432 …
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To be clear, the shrink did not help. What helped was finally graduating and leaving child-prison. For me, moving forward in adulthood required breaking a pattern where my motivation just stalled out for anything labeled "work," mostly by doing lots of weird, interesting jobs
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I think in HS problems are not well described, so if your talent is describing problems, you are trying to find motivation to do weird arbitrary shit. Abitrary is hard for memory and cognition, but presents as motivation. <-Not the whole problem.... Probably.
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My other thought on this is that it is clearly ok to get only 'some' out of HS learning. The crazy pressure for you to take all value from the curriculum as assigned feels like teacher ego (+incentive) more than philosophically deep value or even future oriented pragmatics.
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Problems in education are over-described on the object level but given woefully little context, which makes sense for a system first designed to create pliant industrial/farm workers. The pressure to "learn" is partly teachers incentivized by test scores & partly cultural mythos
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I really wonder what it would take for most people to acknowledge the main problem with schools is their existence.
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How much guidance a school should give is definately a top question for our era. Vs librarianship.
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I don't think there is any reason for there to be an institution that provides such "guidance". The whole premise is ridiculous. People live very different lives and want very different things. How could a single institution productively advise with that?
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Alternative frame: school is daycare. It serves the purposes of cheapening labor by dramatically increasing its supply & allowing local, state, and federal governments some control over what their newest citizens know & believe (hello, pledge of allegiance).
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I have always been sceptical of this way of looking at it. People go to school for 12 years. Do 18 year olds really need daycare?
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And even if one looks at it in this way the harm done to people's creativity surely makes school a net-economic loss even if it means more people can work instead of minding the kids.
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