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1. sim@shitposter.club's status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 22:51:45 JST sim
   "Is it not the great defect of our education today that although we often succeed in teaching our pupils “subjects,” we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think? They learn everything, except the art of learning."
   —Dorothy Sayers, The Lost Tools of Learning.
   • sim@shitposter.club's status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 22:51:44 JST sim

     in reply to
     "When you ask someone, “What do you do?” do you really mean, “What’s your job?” Can you imagine asking George Washington what he did for a living? He would have answered that he was a farmer. He worked at home, except when he wasn’t at home. His role in history reveals that he could have responded, “I’m a farmer, a citizen, a stepfather, an army officer, the president, Martha’s husband, etc.” Even a craftsman such as a cooper or a goldsmith in colonial Boston would have farmed and constructed and participated in church and community government. For most early Americans, their daily duties were defined by the task ahead of them rather than by a particular career they had been trained for."
     
     We are slacking, huh?
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   • sim@shitposter.club's status on Friday, 03-Feb-2023 22:51:45 JST sim

     in reply to
     "Remember, before universal, compulsory education, this model was taught by sixteen-year-old youths in one-room schoolhouses full of children of various ages and abilities. If these young teachers could do it, we can do it, especially today, with the multitude of tools and resources available at our fingertips."
     
     No pressure. Even 16 year olds can teach this.