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School is already useless. See this essay for instance https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/02/contra-robinson-on-schooling/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/02

School is already useless. See this essay for instance https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/02/contra-robinson-on-schooling/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/02/contra-robinson-on-sch... How many people use say more than 1% of the knowledge they learn in High School? Hell how many people even remember more than 1% of it? There have been studies done on unschooled kids - that get minimal formal education and are allowed to spend their time however they want. And they do only sightly worse than schooled kids.

greenleafjacob 10y ago
Like advertising - 99% of advertising is useless, but identifying which 1% isn't is hard.
unityByFreedom 10y ago
> School is already useless I realize there are people who feel that way. I'm not one of them. There are a lot of things I synthesized from school. For me, practicing learning a bunch of different things was useful in itself. Some people learn better in school, and some find ways to do it on their own. > There have been studies done on unschooled kids - that get minimal formal education and are allowed to spend their time however they want. And they do only sightly worse than schooled kids There is a big difference between having a few unschooled kids and changing the whole system to be unschooled. If unschooled is going to be the way of the future, do it at local levels and let it grow with its success. We need not defund public education to achieve an idealized educational system that isn't going to work for everyone.