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> If the goal is human-level intelligence, that has been demonstrably achieved with the far lesser resources of the public school system. Pretending that the s
by SirensOfTitan 5y ago
> If the goal is human-level intelligence, that has been demonstrably achieved with the far lesser resources of the public school system.
Pretending that the scientifically managed public school system, that attempts to manufacture uniform educated humans on a conveyer belt, is responsible for human education is fairly ridiculous.
Children have a remarkable capacity to learn, and do so automatically through free play and exploration until public education wrings that curiosity out of them and turns education into a job.
Humans get educated despite the public education system, not because of it.
- guythedudebro 5y agoYeah everyone knows children will innately learn calculus from flinging mud at eachother.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Pretending that the scientifically managed public school system, Say what now? There may be places on Earth that practice scientific management, there are definitely some that pretend to, but IME public school systems are neither.
- SirensOfTitan 5y agoSchools (at least American public schools) are one of the last bastions of Taylorism in the west. They treat students like uniform widgets on an assembly line. You can read for yourself: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED566616.pdf https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED566616.pdf https://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue3_2/rees.html https://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue3_2/rees.html
- dragonwriter 5y ago“Treating X as uniform widgets” (where X are not uniform widgets) and “scientific management” are not only not the same thing, they are anticorrelated.