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Re:Ask HN: Friend's 15 year old wants to drop out, I've been... by quasque on Saturday February 09, 2013 @09:04PM (#5195094)
This is a curious assault on general knowledge that you display here - what precisely would you consider to be "useless information", and why?

Schooling at the level you're at now is designed to be well-rounded, and I suspect you would be doing yourself a future disservice if you chose to completely reject it in favour of your current narrow interests.

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Re:Ask HN: Friend's 15 year old wants to drop out, I've been... by shawndumas on Sunday February 10, 2013 @04:24PM (#5197973)
the insipid inanity that they pass off as "knowledge" really is not worth his time.

he would be much better served reading broadly; historic fiction, science/nature periodicals, the classics etc

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Re:Ask HN: Friend's 15 year old wants to drop out, I've been... by quasque on Sunday February 10, 2013 @08:20PM (#5198764)
As I am unfamiliar with the state of the US education system, could you please explain what exactly are you referring to?
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Re:Ask HN: Friend's 15 year old wants to drop out, I've been... by shawndumas on Monday February 11, 2013 @12:42PM (#5202025)
below is an example of what is done and what to do diff. this is about science but you can extrapolate to the other subjects.

teachers like Tyler DeWitt are vastly underrepresented in the school system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVwWN0kjbms&list=FLj3EXpr...

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Re:Ask HN: Friend's 15 year old wants to drop out, I've been... by quasque on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @04:32PM (#5209698)
Thanks for the links. The speaker in that video makes an excellent point about science communication which I think applies to all education and not just primary/seconday school. For example, even scientific journals having "commentary" or "news and views" sections alongside the papers is incredibly important to tell the readers why the research may be important (if they don't follow it intimately already).
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Re:Ask HN: Friend's 15 year old wants to drop out, I've been... by shawndumas on Tuesday February 12, 2013 @03:56PM (#5209471)
also see this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/...
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