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Flagging, seems unrelated to hackers

• gyardley 17y ago
  Discussions about the educational system are both frequent on the site and germane to the creation of hackers.
• startuprules 17y ago
  Why? Hackers can devise ways to create better schools than what we have now. To do so, they would have to learn why the existing ones failed.
• tokenadult 17y ago
  After edit: I don't think this thread should be auto-killed by flagging. It seems to be on-topic as the guidelines define the topic of the site. The writings of pg, the founder of this site, on education policy are what drew me to Hacker News. The guidelines say, "What to Submit "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html The world will be a duller place if hackers have no interest in education policy. See pg's articles related to education: http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html http://paulgraham.com/hs.html http://paulgraham.com/hs.html http://paulgraham.com/college.html http://paulgraham.com/college.html http://paulgraham.com/wisdom.html http://paulgraham.com/wisdom.html This list is not exhaustive. A lot of hackers think deeply about education, and that interest shows up in many of their writings.