Schools are a newfangled notion

Written: February 29, 2020 at 5:05 PM
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It is schools that are the newfangled notion, the untested fad, the violator of tradition. - Chris Crawford

John Taylor Gatto makes a very strong case ((The Underground History of American Education #citation)) that the people in America were more educated before the mandatory schooling laws were enacted in 1852.

Most interesting to me is this idea that the newer concept of "going to school" is so ingrained in our modern culture that we don't think how things were done previously could possibly have been better. Like a sort of sunk cost fallacy. -> - Confirmation bias in feedback loops // Second Order Thinking

It feels like the western medical philosophy vs. functional (Functional medicine focuses on uncovering the root cause)/holistic medicine.

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#education #gamedesign #toolong