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One word: Edutainment. It's a Zoo, not a school. Zoos are for entertaining families. And while they desire to fill that entertainment with factually correct
by kleer001 11y ago
One word: Edutainment.
It's a Zoo, not a school.
Zoos are for entertaining families. And while they desire to fill that entertainment with factually correct bits that's only secondary. Schools are for educating the interested. Any entertainment you find at school is wholly secondary to the purpose of school.
- knughit 11y agoThis is a silly argument. Good schools have fun, zoos are informative, and schools don't have surprise baboon battles.
- jdeisenberg 11y agoYou haven't been in one of our department faculty meetings.
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- NhanH 11y agoThe purpose of school is to lock up kids and adolescents in order to free up the adult population. Any education happening is incidental.
- ChrisClark 11y agoI found the edgy 14 year old!
- NhanH 11y agoI'm happy to response that I'm neither 14, nor old enough to have realized the idea on my own before I came across it. >And as for the schools, they were just holding pens within this fake world. Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. In fact their primary purpose is to keep kids locked up in one place for a big chunk of the day so adults can get things done. And I have no problem with this: in a specialized industrial society, it would be a disaster to have kids running around loose. http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html
- dang 11y agoPlease don't do this here.
- awl130 11y agothe purpose of school is to train kids to get up on time, to endure an unpleasant commute to an unpleasant place where they engage in unpleasant activities all day for the better of society.