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Re:Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Caut... by jeffdavis on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:28PM (#21649896)
"Peer groups are the dominant influence on a child’s personality and development, full stop."

That has interesting implications for the idea of getting everyone to go to college. Maybe a lot of the benefits of a college are the peer group, and if there's no selection of the peer group, the benefits will evaporate.

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Re:Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Caut... by NickNameNick on Thursday November 28, 2019 @04:50AM (#21655908)
That does raise the idea of fake students - people paid by the university to pretend to be younger co-students and influence the attitudes and behaviour of their actual student peers.

Completely unethical and unlikely to be effective of course.

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