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Deschooling Society (medium.com/marksaroufim)
1 point by formalsystem on Nov 15, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Too little nuance. Which would one prefer: a home-schooled neurosurgeon or an accredited one? A home-schooled nuclear physicist working at a power plant or an accredited one?

Universities won't go away; some things you just can't learn at home. However, the education system is indeed loaded with problems. There are too much students who study for the wrong reasons; too few teachers who can teach; archaic teaching methods, e.g. lectures; mandatory education; and the overwhelming amount of useless degrees, e.g. gender studies, tourism, marketing, etc.

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