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Hanson's Razor (do not attribute to malice what can be explain by naive pragmatism) has a simple solution: School are social integration devices made to (cynic) homogenize people to not think different in a feudal/corporate world and (optimist) to teach them etiquette and not be anti-social and malicious within the confines of a civil utopic future. Whether individual school is bad is completely dependent on whether there are special treatment for both "gifted kids" and 'kids in need", but equality and merit disrupts such social flows. https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/more-school-or-less-school https://theunlikelyno.com/2018/02/28/pedagogy-pandemonium-why-school-sucks/ https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/kids-can-recover-from-missing-even https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/why-scott-alexander-is-wrong-about https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-missing

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