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Although I believe I could have learned the material in significantly less time... 1) What I thought was important at the beginning of high school is not what
by TallGuyShort 17y ago
Although I believe I could have learned the material in significantly less time...
1) What I thought was important at the beginning of high school is not what I thought was important once I graduated. If the decision was left to me, I would have been wrong.
2) You can't pack social skills into less time.
- slig 17y ago3) You have to have a place to leave your kids during the day while you work.
- asciilifeform 17y agoThe idea that a 14+ year-old human is a "child" is a ludicrous modern delusion. Less than a hundred years ago, they sailed the seas, fought in wars, etc.
- branden 17y agoThose are some pretty crappy things to make kids do. I'm glad we stopped.
- asciilifeform 17y ago> to make kids do And now most people (including you) also deny that the "kids" possess free will. I argue that this act is far more cruel than hiring someone to sail. And once again you take our society's ludicrous definition of "kid" as a given, as though it were an obvious law of nature that we turn from livestock into human beings instantly at age 18.
- tc7 17y agoI was homeschooled, so I don't have any first-hand experience, but in my possibly flawed observation: High-school has always seemed to me a very artificial and unhealthy sort of social environment, where the social hierarchies and rules are defined by other high-schoolers, who don't have a lot of maturity or experience. Is this wrong? Is high-school in general a good social preparation for 'the real world', or is it a matter of finding the right group of people to hang out with?