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Re:Everyone should get the opportunity to program, but schoo... by rm999 on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:00AM (#5318462)
I hate these articles that argue for drastic changes in schooling without the deep analysis those changes deserve. It takes a certain kind of arrogance to go from "I wasn't good at X" to "X is useless; let's get rid of it."

I also struggled in high school because I couldn't choose my own curriculum (as do a lot of people), but what school reinforced in me is the concept that not everything in life is easy - successful people can turn a challenge into something constructive. I could go on about all the benefits of a standardized, well-rounded education, but every time one of these articles pops up a lot of people do that for me :)

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Re:Everyone should get the opportunity to program, but schoo... by betterunix on Monday March 04, 2013 @10:50AM (#5318741)
"I could go on about all the benefits of a standardized"

I could just as easily go on about the detrimental effect of standardized education. The executive summary is this: societies do not advance when everyone thinks the same way as everyone else.

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