Just discovered this via Roger's Bacon and Astral Codex Ten. I have to comment because of my matching avatar (chosen in homage to Bill Watterson). Astral Codex Ten is full of those usual complaints about school being bad/useless and, as this article admits, they are mostly correct. But I also resonate with the contrarian view - my school experience, though bad, had some good side effects. Being shunned as brainy, and therefore socially isolated (which at least was better than the bullying) meant I had to get used to being "alone with my thoughts". This is actually a good skill to have (now I call it meditating), and I've read that for many people it's such a scary state that they would rather do self harm than suffer it. See also - social media.
The worst musing: what if your kid is already a savant in the dark arts of people? Does that mean they shouldn't mog (one-up, out-chad) others at school?
Just wrote a big long comment and then accidentally refreshed page. TLDR favorite post so far. Being contrarian to contrarian takes is based. Look forward to more spicy takes that defy the dissident ingroups default of “mainstream bad”.
Just discovered this via Roger's Bacon and Astral Codex Ten. I have to comment because of my matching avatar (chosen in homage to Bill Watterson). Astral Codex Ten is full of those usual complaints about school being bad/useless and, as this article admits, they are mostly correct. But I also resonate with the contrarian view - my school experience, though bad, had some good side effects. Being shunned as brainy, and therefore socially isolated (which at least was better than the bullying) meant I had to get used to being "alone with my thoughts". This is actually a good skill to have (now I call it meditating), and I've read that for many people it's such a scary state that they would rather do self harm than suffer it. See also - social media.
The worst musing: what if your kid is already a savant in the dark arts of people? Does that mean they shouldn't mog (one-up, out-chad) others at school?
Just wrote a big long comment and then accidentally refreshed page. TLDR favorite post so far. Being contrarian to contrarian takes is based. Look forward to more spicy takes that defy the dissident ingroups default of “mainstream bad”.