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Re:John Lewis slams UK education system and offers staff lit... by ck425 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @06:12AM (#27728538)
I suspect so though I can't definitively say. Most of my later learning involved making a ton of painful mistakes many of which I'm certain could have been avoided with some basic help. I genuinely can't link very much I learned in school to helping me learn later in life. Science report writing, one product design class and a school show I performed in are about it.

I can on the otherhand link many things I did outside of school at that time to things I learned later in life.

I don't disagree with your view that the point of school is to teach children to self-teach. But I do disagree that the school system I went through helped very much with that.

Re:John Lewis slams UK education system and offers staff lit... by msg3 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @06:26AM (#27728589)
Fair enough, although I think you are maybe thinking a bit too narrowly about what school taught you. To get you to the point where you can write a scientific report takes an awful lot of learning... seems unfair to dismiss all of that.
Re:John Lewis slams UK education system and offers staff lit... by ck425 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @06:32AM (#27728616)
Perhaps. I could already read well and write a little when I got to school at 4, so I'm perhaps dismissing it due to natural ability and good parenting.