Status Updates From Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anni...

He’s got interesting points but I do think he’s also a lil extreme and that’s putting it nicely. But still a worthwhile POV to expand my persoective

Network does not equal community. A network is only interested in what you can do for them. There is no curiosity about you or your life.

“The school institution school is very well, but does not educate”

Each child will eventually be intrinsically motivated to learn to read. It doesn’t really matter when you learn to read whether 4 or 7 or 10 because you will learn eventually like how a baby learns that crawling will let them explore further. However, in a school setting that’s obviously impossible because how could you have a student in that setting in 3rd grade not know how to read? It would be detrimental