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> School is not, and should not be, the epicenter of all social interaction during a person's youth. How can it not be the epicenter of social interaction for
by stdbrouw 13y ago
> School is not, and should not be, the epicenter of all social interaction during a person's youth.
How can it not be the epicenter of social interaction for young people when it's where they spend the majority of their waking hours? How many people did you meet in high school vs. how many in extracurricular activities?
- sillysaurus2 13y agoEDIT: The lack of compassion for outliers is an alarming indication of the general attitude toward education at large. Outliers are who advance the world.[1] If you don't help them, then you'll live in a poorer country. If splitting by gender is the most basic thing we can do toward that end with proven results, and "... But socialization! (except for those I don't care about)" is standing in the way, then the situation is pretty grim. I'm going to bow out of this conversation now. [1] http://paulgraham.com/wisdom.html http://paulgraham.com/wisdom.html
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoI realise there are some nerdy types around here who socialized entirely through IRC, but I don't think that'll apply to the vast majority of students.
- girvo 13y agoI had an experience that was sometimes similar to yours. Come on though, we are the outliers... In my opinion anyway.
- stdbrouw 13y ago> Outliers are who advance the world. But everyone has to live in it. You're not asking for compassion, you're asking schools to do something that might be advantageous for a minority at the expense of everyone else. How does that make the world a better or more advanced place? I sympathize with what you're saying, but surely there's better solutions here than single-sex schools.