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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by Broken_Hippo on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:28AM (#24835775)
Yet if you don't know math, you can be ripped off. If you can't read the contract or understand law at all, you can be manipulated.
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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by jjk166 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:42AM (#24837869)
Which would be a compelling argument if there were no other way to learn math or law.
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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by guidoism on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:49AM (#24837961)
Indeed.

And the math schools concentrate on isn’t particular useful in the context of a modern society. So what that you once memorized a geometric proof long enough to take a test if you don’t understand how interest works and how credit card companies take advantage of you.

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by Broken_Hippo on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:35AM (#24838568)
Not everyone can just learn on their own, and if your parents aren't real great at math or law or teaching, you really need school.
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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by jjk166 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:18PM (#24839158)
That some people need kidney dialysis is not an argument that everyone getting kidney dialysis is the only way to stay healthy.

If you can't learn from books or videos or online lectures or parents or tutors, I doubt generic schooling is really going to be able to help much either, but if it does great. People learn in different ways and different kids need different resources, but that's an argument against a one-size fits all public schooling system, not in favor.

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