The answer is constitutional freedom of learning. This changes nothing except for the right to make educational choices. The “bottom 20%” may continue using the old decrepit system, or just quit and do better things (e.g. get a job, apprenticeship, or get good in computer games). Google: Declaration of Educational Emancipation. That’s the panacea to all problems mentioned here. Leave the jail door open! The prisoners will know what to do
The essence of freedom is choice. The best way to make people seek idleness is to keep forcing them to do things against themselves. Do you know a healthy kid who will do nothing? Doing nothing is a symptom of injury. Exhaustion or helplessness. We keep emasculating will by coercion and obedience, and then the threat of “doing nothing” becomes an argument against freedom. There is no law against homelessness, and seeking homelessness is not considered a societal threat.
Yes. Many. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that most people in this community, who claim that they’re self-motivated learners who were stunted by school would have been worse off without the structure of a formal education. One only needs to go through the archives and look at all the posts about akrasia to find evidence of this.
The answer is constitutional freedom of learning. This changes nothing except for the right to make educational choices. The “bottom 20%” may continue using the old decrepit system, or just quit and do better things (e.g. get a job, apprenticeship, or get good in computer games). Google: Declaration of Educational Emancipation. That’s the panacea to all problems mentioned here. Leave the jail door open! The prisoners will know what to do
Will they have the option to do nothing?
The essence of freedom is choice. The best way to make people seek idleness is to keep forcing them to do things against themselves. Do you know a healthy kid who will do nothing? Doing nothing is a symptom of injury. Exhaustion or helplessness. We keep emasculating will by coercion and obedience, and then the threat of “doing nothing” becomes an argument against freedom. There is no law against homelessness, and seeking homelessness is not considered a societal threat.
The underclass is coming from somewhere, even with compulsory education.
Yes. Many. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that most people in this community, who claim that they’re self-motivated learners who were stunted by school would have been worse off without the structure of a formal education. One only needs to go through the archives and look at all the posts about akrasia to find evidence of this.