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		Razengan 46 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Where Educational Technology Fails: A seventh-grad... > They must be prepared for life with basic skills that can be put to good use. There are 8 billion people. Not every single one can be ""put to good use"" We have enough technology now to let people slow down and fucking chill a bit.

wakawaka28 43 days ago [–]

The point is, you have to try to encourage people to be better, and if you're lucky they will at least turn out ok. The default human condition is to be lazy and unambitious. Nobody is actually hurt by a bit of discipline in their formative years.

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