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Come on, what we routinely call ‘education’ is in fact nothing more than an indoctrination into a set of ultimately useless social customs. Whatever useful knowledge is taught in schools comes spoon-fed without any explanation at all. Can you imagine a school teaching *critical thinking*? Or what science is actually about? Or at least what mathematics is *good for*?
And guess what, the way kids learn when left to their own devices has been studied for decades (hint: look up ‘constructivism’ on Wikipedia). All the “educational system” needs to do is to stand back a little and settle for providing guidance. Trouble is, that would clash with the modern society’s obsession with control.
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