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School is glorified babysitting until university. Actually learning is just a convenient but ultimately secondary use of that time.
by nisegami 5y ago
School is glorified babysitting until university. Actually learning is just a convenient but ultimately secondary use of that time.
- znpy 5y ago> School is glorified babysitting until university. This is true, this is a harsh truth. You can see the effect in actual (real world) consequences: no one cares if you learn nothing at school and no teacher is ever fired for low learning outcome in their students. But the immediate moment a student gets hurt, for any reason, then hell is unleashed on the teacher, lawyers get involved, a the teachers is now actually risking something. School is glorified babysitting, until university when you're on your own, age brackets mostly don't matter, and the burden of learning is onto you (professors don't care).
- myth_drannon 5y agoIn US maybe. Other countries might have or had better systems.
- chasd00 5y ago> School is glorified babysitting as a parent of a 12 and 9 year old i mostly agree. You really have to augment and reaffirm the material being taught in school outside of the school setting and with a different approach. It takes a lot of work to nurture and grow a love-of-learning vs just "did you do your homework? yes? good.". No parent is perfect though, it takes a lot of effort and trial/error to learn what works and doesn't work with your particular kid.
- dragonsky67 5y agoThis has been evidenced by the big push to get kids back into face to face school during the pandemic. It is very rare for any discussion promoting this to even mention education let alone propose that face to face education is better than what has been happening over the last couple of years.