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Has anyone ever read a book?
by tehjoker 5y ago
Has anyone ever read a book?
- dang 5y agoPlease don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments.
- tehjoker 5y agoI thought it said a lot in few words. People are worried about learning loss, but tons of learning comes from books. Many people have different learning styles, but many classrooms are used simply to instill discipline in children to prepare them for low wage worklife. I'm not convinced of the catastrophic rhetoric compared to subjecting teachers and students to a virulent disease.
- nradov 5y agoBooks have value, but in my experience people who are self taught from books usually have a very superficial knowledge and think they know more than they really do. In order to really learn, most students need to interact with teachers who can challenge them.
- tehjoker 5y agoI do agree with you, teachers are absolutely necessary to get value for many kids, but we aren't talking about completely doing away with teachers, just putting them on remote in order to prevent the spread of a deadly disease. It's sub-optimal, but I'd rather an alive dumb kid than a smart dead one (or perhaps more likely: a dumb kid with alive parents than a smart kid with dead parents). If we're really worried about losing learning, why not allocate money at the end of the pipeline so that the kids can do more free higher ed / remedial education?
- nradov 5y agoFortunately the risk of death for healthy kids is virtually zero. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.30.21267048v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.30.21267048v...
- dang 5y agoIf you had posted that in the first place it would have been fine. Please avoid snarky one-liners, especially on divisive, inflammatory topics. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html