I unfortunately don’t have any answers, just some more related questions:
Does anyone have practical advice on this topic? In the short term we are obviously powerless to change the system as a whole. But I couldn’t in good conscience send my children to suffer through the same system I was forced to spend a large part of my youth in. Are there any better practically available alternatives?
What about socialization? School is quite poor at this, yet unilaterally removing one kid would probably make them even worse off. (Since presumably all other kids their age are still at school.)
As an adult, what actually useful methods of learning exist? I learned the vast majority of my useful knowledge through autodidactism, everything else (school, university) is pretty much noise. I would be open to alternatives, but I haven’t seen any kind of “teaching” so far that came anywhere close.
I learned the vast majority of my useful knowledge through autodidactism, everything else (school, university) is pretty much noise. I would be open to alternatives, but I haven’t seen any kind of “teaching” so far that came anywhere close.
Collaborating with an expert/getting tutoring from an expert might be really good?
Collaborating with an expert/getting tutoring from an expert might be really good?
Probably. How does one go about finding such experts, who are willing to answer questions/tutor/collaborate?
(I think the usual answer to this is university, but to me this does not seem to be worth the effort. Like I maybe met 1-2 people at uni who would qualify for this? How do you find these people more effectively? And even when you find them, how do you get them to help you? Usually this seems to require luck & significant social capital expenditure.)
I unfortunately don’t have any answers, just some more related questions:
Does anyone have practical advice on this topic? In the short term we are obviously powerless to change the system as a whole. But I couldn’t in good conscience send my children to suffer through the same system I was forced to spend a large part of my youth in. Are there any better practically available alternatives?
What about socialization? School is quite poor at this, yet unilaterally removing one kid would probably make them even worse off. (Since presumably all other kids their age are still at school.)
As an adult, what actually useful methods of learning exist? I learned the vast majority of my useful knowledge through autodidactism, everything else (school, university) is pretty much noise. I would be open to alternatives, but I haven’t seen any kind of “teaching” so far that came anywhere close.
Collaborating with an expert/getting tutoring from an expert might be really good?
Probably. How does one go about finding such experts, who are willing to answer questions/tutor/collaborate?
(I think the usual answer to this is university, but to me this does not seem to be worth the effort. Like I maybe met 1-2 people at uni who would qualify for this? How do you find these people more effectively? And even when you find them, how do you get them to help you? Usually this seems to require luck & significant social capital expenditure.)