Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds

Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds by rhn_mk1 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @10:06AM (#24353373)

When it comes to history... yes, there's a large overlap. The ancient times, the history of philosophy due to the development of ideas, the recent modern times due to their relevance to today's neighborhood politics, are three topics that I am constantly interested in. With the exception of ancient history (maybe due to the dearth of established dates), school had problems teaching me those.

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Re:Teens' anxiety levels dropped during pandemic, study finds by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @11:57AM (#24354454)

There are huge problems with locking an age cohort with wildly different interests, talents, abilities, and personalities into a room and expecting them to go through puberty together while also learning... something.

Even if you select for ability along some axis, you still get different interests and learning styles - and personalities.

Learning is basically industrial, uselessly abstracted [1] and commodified, when it could be individualised. A lot of talent is wasted because high school stunts the really bright kids. And given how brutal it is, it seems to damage everyone emotionally.

[1] Virtually none of the math you learn at school really makes any sense unless you're one of the small number of people who go into STEM - which is where you finally discover what it's for. Things are a bit better than they used to be, but basic financial math as a specific competence is far more useful to most of the population than even the most basic algebra and trig.

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