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As a society we should totally rethink how we handle children. Employment is as personal and customizable as ever, but we increasingly treat kinds not even as

As a society we should totally rethink how we handle children. Employment is as personal and customizable as ever, but we increasingly treat kinds not even as blue-collar workers but as poultry on industrial farm. Stick them in cage with artificial light, force feed with unnatural excuse for knowledge, disregard their personality, rank on how good they pass tests (we weight poultry at this point)

threatofrain 11y ago
There's better education if you can afford it. There are schools where doctorates lecture the promising young on cryptography. There are schools with great faculty:student ratios. And great psychological resources. Owing to how few of such environments society can sustainably create, I think it would be implausible to suggest that all children warrant access to such limited resources. At the very least, it would call for a rethinking of what % of our employable society should be employed as teachers, and how and where our most elite teachers ought be allocated.
- guard-of-terra 11y ago
  I don't see why such environments got to be scarce. What's the limiting resource here?
  - threatofrain 11y ago
    The limiting factor is talent, bureaucratic and pedagogical, and money.
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  - atemerev 11y ago
    Teachers. Good teachers are rare and it's hard to measure teaching talent. Bad teachers are commonplace and unionized to teeth. Sounds like a perfect environment for a disruptive AI tech. Like Coursera, but better and fully automated. Or, leaving AI aside, at least another "Uber for X" app, where X = teaching.
  - atom-morgan 11y ago
    Innovation and experimentation aren't welcome in education.
atom-morgan 11y ago
I recently wrote about this http://atom-morgan.github.io/child-labor-laws-are-outdated http://atom-morgan.github.io/child-labor-laws-are-outdated I'm fairly young (25) and I agree 100%. I think I was treated like a child for far too long in an environment that doesn't make any sense. From the age of 5 until I was 22-23 I was sitting in a room studying the same shit over and over.
- alanwatts 11y ago
  I'm in the same boat. It never hit me until my last couple years at university. I had professors teaching obsolete material who mandated attendance to fill out missing words on a PowerPoint that they purposefully left blank. I realized I was paying large sums of money to have my education actively inhibited. >The traditional classroom is an obsolete detention home, a feudal dungeon. -Marshall McLuhan

threatofrain 11y ago

There's better education if you can afford it. There are schools where doctorates lecture the promising young on cryptography. There are schools with great faculty:student ratios. And great psychological resources. Owing to how few of such environments society can sustainably create, I think it would be implausible to suggest that all children warrant access to such limited resources. At the very least, it would call for a rethinking of what % of our employable society should be employed as teachers, and how and where our most elite teachers ought be allocated.

guard-of-terra 11y ago
I don't see why such environments got to be scarce. What's the limiting resource here?
- threatofrain 11y ago
  The limiting factor is talent, bureaucratic and pedagogical, and money.
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- atemerev 11y ago
  Teachers. Good teachers are rare and it's hard to measure teaching talent. Bad teachers are commonplace and unionized to teeth. Sounds like a perfect environment for a disruptive AI tech. Like Coursera, but better and fully automated. Or, leaving AI aside, at least another "Uber for X" app, where X = teaching.
- atom-morgan 11y ago
  Innovation and experimentation aren't welcome in education.

atom-morgan 11y ago

I recently wrote about this http://atom-morgan.github.io/child-labor-laws-are-outdated http://atom-morgan.github.io/child-labor-laws-are-outdated I'm fairly young (25) and I agree 100%. I think I was treated like a child for far too long in an environment that doesn't make any sense. From the age of 5 until I was 22-23 I was sitting in a room studying the same shit over and over.

alanwatts 11y ago
I'm in the same boat. It never hit me until my last couple years at university. I had professors teaching obsolete material who mandated attendance to fill out missing words on a PowerPoint that they purposefully left blank. I realized I was paying large sums of money to have my education actively inhibited. >The traditional classroom is an obsolete detention home, a feudal dungeon. -Marshall McLuhan