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On Education 2021 marks 10 years since I dropped out of high school. It’s the kind of nice round-number anniversary which invites some introspection, and it…
On Education 2021 marks 10 years since I dropped out of high school. It’s the kind of nice round-number anniversary which invites some introspection, and it feels like a good time to post some lessons learned. First: nothing taught me to appreciate traditional institutions of learning more than dropping out. Schools, universities, and other forms of organised learning have a bad rap. We’ve all heard the memes: they constrain the most creative students, they focus on testing memorisation of useless facts, they only teach for the test, and they’re rife with bullies. The most common comparaison i
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