• Xariphon@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    As a subscriber of antischool and a promoter of self-guided learning, I’m for people freeing themselves from school so long as they’re not hurting anybody to do it.

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      1 year ago

      This is some libertarian ‘pull themselves up by their bootstraps’ bullshit that I also never hear from anyone who actually has a child. Children do not have fully-developed brains. That alone should be enough to realize that they can’t be trusted to teach themselves things properly. They need guidance.

      Also, letting a six-year-old decide for themselves whether or not they want to learn to read and know what 1+1 equals is just fucking stupid.

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      1 year ago

      On one hand, yeah, but on the other, to really achieve, you must stand on the shoulders of giants. Else, you will be reinventing the wheel, sometimes literally. One of our great advantages as a species is language, allowing us to communicate complex concepts.

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      1 year ago

      They’re hurting people by being tomorrow’s idiots ruining the world.

      There, that encompasses all of them, now you’re pro school, right?

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      1 year ago

      I do think when people eventually decide what they want to do, they will apply themselves and learn. Kids (correctly) believe school is wasting their time. If we offered vocational training instead, I think it would be a win-win.