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> To educate people you just need the internet (communication infrastructure). This is laughably reductive. Certainly the Internet can help people get educated
by paulryanrogers 1y ago
> To educate people you just need the internet (communication infrastructure).
This is laughably reductive. Certainly the Internet can help people get educated and pop some comfort bubbles, but it's not automatic. Many (most?) humans need personal attention from others to learn. Even fewer place a value on what they're taught, much less learning itself. A significant number of people must have supervision and some proding to become functioning, literate, and informed adults.
All that said, I'd agree with most of your other points.
- ivape 1y agoMost children are not educated in school anywhere in the world, historically and currently. How do you want to deal with those facts, because I don’t think you can compare great learning instruction to “no education at all”. I fully stand by that most people are not educated in school. Another way of putting is, the number TWO is greater than ZERO, but I’d prefer if we not compare ZERO to anything.
- paulryanrogers 1y ago> Most children are not educated in school anywhere in the world, historically and currently. This is quite a bold claim. So I guess girls in Afghanistan are just as educated as those in Norway?
- ivape 1y agoI'm talking very macro. Look, you can sit with an LLM today and go through a topic you once were educated on and see just how many gaps it fills in. So you yourself can see just how many holes there were in your own education. What do you think the case is for the average person living in the world? Do you really think they got a chance to clarify and explore their education? It's blatantly obvious that we've been giving people inadequate education for quite some time.