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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago
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[-] monovergent@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago

School is where the passion for learning goes to die and the desire to cheat is born

In this day and age, hobbies are the last bastions of passion and curiosity. One who is engaged in a hobby is intrinsically motivated to learn and apply what has been learned in novel ways, just as the scholars of old have done. School, reviled by many a student, has earned its reputation by perverting the concept of learning and exploiting students' passions. The desire to cheat is most unnatural among students, a telltale sign that one's passion and curiosity for the topic at hand has been extinguished, replaced with a desire to rid oneself of a burden, the burden of learning only for the sake of becoming learned.

also, we need 20h/week, 4 days/week schools.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

What do parents do then when they're working since childcare in the US is fucked

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's only half the plan. We cut school hours so kids can work in the mines.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yep. Sadly, I'm not sure there's another way for most people. On Lemmy we're mostly nerds, but would most people have learned even basic math if they didn't have to?

In some ways, the most motivated or talented students are just as ill-fitted to the production line system of education as the disabled ones.

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

For Lemmy specifically, I don't think police need to be abolished.

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[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 26 points 3 days ago

In a discussion about whether liking trans women is gay or not I said that they are all missing the point. Even if it was the gayest thing on earth, being gay should never be this big of a deal. And it just shows how hard it is for some to overcome the stigma of being gay, even if they are super tolerant in general.

That started a group discussion with a lot of different opinions on that matter.

[-] KaRunChiy@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

That's a good one I need to remember that

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