The lower the barrier to entry, the longer the tail.
But that’s never what school was for. Genuinely. We’re gradually trying to retcon it into that, but a classroom is simply not how you take a chaotic toddler and produce a teenager who’s engaged in the world and desires to learn about it. It’s how you produce more consumers and workers. The desired end and the attempted means are totally disconnected.
We don’t only learn in school. Fuck, I didn’t even go to school. Brilliant people are not brilliant because a school made them that way, they did it for themselves. Children’s lives are entirely different than they were when I was a child, it’s a holistic issue. They aren’t being exposed to the things they need to see. Like self-sufficient adults who aren’t consumers first, parents eventually.
Scientific misconduct and regulatory interference by the Coca-Cola corporation has resulted in the loss of many millions of years of human life. It isn’t just that they happen to sell a product that has sugar in it. They have calculatingly committed grave crimes for trivial reasons, and no one seems to give a fuck or somehow even to know about it.
Nobody is coming for your soda. Put down the baseball bat.
fuck breeders. but less than billionaires.
What are you basing your opinion on? Are you looking at outcomes or are you just using “common sense”? Don’t you know people who didn’t go to school and yet are happy people? Honestly, it isn’t a super big difference in outcomes considering how much money and effort we put on it, and how much trauma occurs to children in educational settings.
I’m not advocating to abandon children’s education, but putting children in classrooms for their entire childhood is very obviously not the best way to go about this. If you had infinite time and money, would you send your kids away to school for even one day??