usernamesaredifficul [he/him] @ usernamesaredifficul @hexbear.net

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bruh what

I agree that letting kids chose what to study is a good thing but I think that's more for older kids for a number of reasons.

1 - they need some experience with the subject to know if they like it and it would be a shame if they gave up on maths or history entirely because of a bad impression at the very beginning stage when if they got to know the subject better they might love it

2 - young children if left to their own devices probably won't do the early childhood work they need to. Children mature as they age and I would argue it's abusive to give them responsibility for their decisions before they are old enough to make them properly

3 - society and the children themselves do need them to have a baseline level of knowledge in various subjects.

yeah I think that would be fair to say. why do you ask

if when you learned geometry for example you also learned about Pythagoras and the ancient Greeks

that would slow it down quite a bit though. Are you sure you aren't just more interested in history and philosophy than maths. Because I did get taught historical context along with my maths and science lessons and found it hopelessly boring.

Maths would do better to be taught as the creative subject it is. I had a really fun maths teacher who taught us how once you understand how an equation works you can apply it to solve a variety of problems in interesting ways.

I think the way schools teach obedience is less in the subjects themselves but the constructed social atmosphere. The calling people sir, the being grouped into classes and forced to stand in lines, we had one PE teacher that would make us do punishments from WW1 for backtalking (there's some historical context for you!) the fact it was a collective punishment also didn't help

a large portion of my education was "shut up and do what you're bloody well told"

to such an extent that part of me does despite my knowing better resent people who won't

systems don't have to be good they have to be good enough

our education system basically produces as many people as we need taught to the standard we need. It isn't better because it doesn't have to be and institutions have inertia

it is a tech startup there is a high chance their claims are hype based bullshit

the average manager of a tech startup is a little boy who insists his dad is a power ranger

silly worker thinking you own your sleeping mind

As I understand it we imported it from China because it was a system that allowed education at greater scale than Europes previous system of having a conversation with the examiner. It lets lots of people sit the same exam at once

to say capitalism strives for greater efficiency is false it strives for greater scale

Now we stick with it because we've been doing it 200 years and people are used to it

I think I just don't understand how people can have their hobby be related to their work without imploding. I had a cousin who became a proffessional chef and he cooked for fun. That job almost overwhelmed him because he had no escape from its stresses.

I would worry about that happening to me with coding

they just came up as a result of being an isolated community for a while

In my experience French people can often be far more racist than Americans they just know how to express it in more progressive language

no they don't think you should vote they think you should buy italy

fair enough I find if I make programming a hobby as well as a job I burnout and implode

genuinely dont understand why people spend their christmas doing extra unpaid work

if you're angry at the price of bread why do you keep eating

bit idea transwoman that believes this and drinks soy milk for this reason

i think it started in Britain but american idiots seized on the dumbassery and ran with it

15 minute cities is just the idea that it should be feasible to walk to the shops from your house

america's missile defence is the atlantic ocean

do americans just not understand that bombs kill people and the people they hurt are real

also for a government the sums listed are just petty cash