i'll take it over the current system!
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Replying to @goblinodds @QiaochuYuan
I guess the root of it is, I am not convinced that complex, mass society is possible without some kind of mass schooling. Children with diligent, caring adults with time and money to spare in their lives *have* better options.
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Certain skills are not fun to learn but everyone needs them. That suggests scalability, with special attention directed towards stragglers to help them along.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @QiaochuYuan
i actually don't think there are many skills that *everyone* needs, and of the skills that most people should probably have, schools no longer teach most of them (cooking, first aid, financial management...)
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Replying to @goblinodds @QiaochuYuan
Would you not agree that the illiterate are at an extreme disadvantage?
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @QiaochuYuan
sure, that's why i said "not many" and not "any" also, strong doubt that schools are necessary for literacyhttps://www.fastcompany.com/2681011/ethiopian-kids-hacked-their-donated-tablets-in-just-five-months …
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Replying to @goblinodds @QiaochuYuan
Sure but literacy is a big one - it develops over several years, and TBH, is at the core of my argument for schooling. Kids are self motivated learners - but what they learn may not be geared towards the skills needed to navigate mass society, which are often tedious to pick up.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69
that's fair, though i strongly doubt forcing it into a schedule based on age group is better than letting them learn it at their own pace and according to their own interests with some guidance
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Replying to @goblinodds
I suspect that's mostly a scalability issue, which is going to come up whenever you rely on the government for financing. I can think of other arguments, but they seem kind of weak to me now (might change mind later, idk). Classic authoritarian high modernism.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69
yeah i could see there being ways to reform schools that make them substantially less bad without going full anarchy (even if full anarchy is my ideal end-state :B ) it's weird to me how many private schools follow the same industrial model, though
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I've known kids who had middle class hippie parents and went to alternative schools. They didn't seem to lag behind. Private schools are often for social climbers that need to be legible to Ivy League universities and socialize kids into upper class values.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69
that checks out. i went to a "college preparatory" private high school and it was kind of a shitshow academically. (private elementary/middle school was the same, but with a couple of psychologically abusive teachers backed by the principal thrown into the mix)
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