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But would you have been able to learn from those roles if school hadn't laid the groundwork? You can't expect a school to teach every child every skill they ne
by msg3 5y ago
But would you have been able to learn from those roles if school hadn't laid the groundwork?
You can't expect a school to teach every child every skill they need for their adult life. It sounds like you were able to teach yourself the skills you needed to succeed -- in my eyes, producing children able to self-teach is the sign of a very successful school system.
- ck425 5y agoI suspect so though I can't definitively say. Most of my later learning involved making a ton of painful mistakes many of which I'm certain could have been avoided with some basic help. I genuinely can't link very much I learned in school to helping me learn later in life. Science report writing, one product design class and a school show I performed in are about it. I can on the otherhand link many things I did outside of school at that time to things I learned later in life. I don't disagree with your view that the point of school is to teach children to self-teach. But I do disagree that the school system I went through helped very much with that.
- msg3 5y agoFair enough, although I think you are maybe thinking a bit too narrowly about what school taught you. To get you to the point where you can write a scientific report takes an awful lot of learning... seems unfair to dismiss all of that.
- ck425 5y agoPerhaps. I could already read well and write a little when I got to school at 4, so I'm perhaps dismissing it due to natural ability and good parenting.