> I'm confused about HN. Everyone here seems to agree that in person learning is best and not remote, but exactly the other way around when it comes to work and

> I'm confused about HN. Everyone here seems to agree that in person learning is best and not remote, but exactly the other way around when it comes to work and I wonder why. Hot take: because school as most of us conceive it is fundamentally about soft-coercing children into ignoring that they're bored out of their mind so they can focus on something they don't really care about learning. Remote school fails for the same reason old-school management can't be remote: because its efficacy strongly depends on the teacher's ability to coerce children, and it falls apart when you remove that ability. (I'm curious how we'd determine if anything I just said is actually true. I'd want to look at how well Montessori schools adapted to the pandemic, but their philosophy is kind of remote-hostile too.)