I take it you are agreeing with the previous poster that hands-on apprenticeship would be a good alternative to formal study out of books. An apprenticeship (ho

I take it you are agreeing with the previous poster that hands-on apprenticeship would be a good alternative to formal study out of books. An apprenticeship (hopefully) implies a good deal of mentorship and guidance. * * * Personally I think “schooling” should consist much more of student-directed projects, with scope, difficulty, and autonomy gradually increasing over time. It’s a real shame that typically the most substantial pieces of work 18-year-olds are expected to complete in school take maybe 10 or 15 hours, and most of the work students do is broken down into atomized and unrelated chunks which individually take <10 minutes with few if any decisions involved.