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> , but I bet a lot of them would also like to learn a foreign language or quantum physics and haven't gotten that done. Learn a foreign language from school?
by keybored 2y ago
> , but I bet a lot of them would also like to learn a foreign language or quantum physics and haven't gotten that done.
Learn a foreign language from school? How much do I know of the German/French/Spanish (it was one of them, one of the options) that I studied for years in school? None.
For some subjects, something being taught in school seems like a magnet for making a topic or subject boring and uninteresting. Like if it wasn’t taught at all people would at least not be actively biased against it and might pick it up by happenstance.
Which makes me doubt all of those “no one knows X; therefore we should teach it in school”. I don’t think that follows.
> Personalisation fails for a simple reason - people don't really want to learn.
What does (do? Lack of school English) everyone have in common? Schooling.