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> In practice there are strong cultural aspects to it Study, do your homework, behave? What "strong cultural aspect" do you see?

• mjburgess 4y ago
  That's quite funny... do you really not see it? Study the topics we think are important in the ways we think are important behaving in the ways we think are important. No schooling in human history looks like the schooling you're describing, yet you treat is as some concequence of nature.
  • nscalf 4y ago
    No schooling looks like study, do your homework, and behave? So any selection of topics to study is unacceptable by your criteria. We live in a society, we have to have some form of education. In order to give students an education, we have to pick curriculum for them to learn. Some topics are not very important, so we shouldn't focus on teaching them. What system would you prefer to have in place? Or would you rather jut pick the topics that are taught?
  • vorpalhex 4y ago
    English, math and history? Like liberal arts educations aren't THAT newfangled. I realize it's not sophist philosophy but maybe a bit more well rounded.