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How do you figure?
Well, at its core it is a presentation that would be more efficient written down in a book or recorded in a video, which can be referred back to as much as necessary. It's been rendered obsolete for a long time now.
More specifically, I think back to math class where the teacher would solve multiple examples on the board, which probably wasn't the most effective way to help the kids who were behind. The stragglers tend to be the kind who didn't learn a few important things, or had forgotten them. Giving a demonstration of The Newest Thing isn't effective if they're missing critical chunks of information. You have to go through everyone one by one to get everyone who needs it up to speed.
I remember a guy who was next to me in Geometry, completely lost. He asked for help, I found that he didn't know that equations described lines. I showed him how to chart them over a few minutes (about a minute for me to explain, the rest for him to digest it and show back to me that he got it), and he did great that year.
A reference is just a starting point. If you can't do anything with it, or have additional connections to make it stick in your head, nothing permanent is gained.
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School textbooks are written to be as boring as possible.
This is something that is quite infuriating, yeah. If you
really want to see the most boring thing ever, try watching one of those math lectures PBS runs in the middle of the day meant for people who need to get a GED.
It's the complete antithesis of joy; hardly any wonder our country sucks at math. And it doesn't need to be that way - Square One was a splendid show for rudimentary math concepts.
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The only other stuff we did was play dumb games and build crap out of popsicle sticks.
The 'ole "school as a daycare" problem. It really doesn't take 13 years to learn geometry or what a pronoun is...
But I guess that isn't
too bad.
We (the internet) has been talking a little bit more about basic income since Yang has been pushing it a bit. A lot of talk about why this would be appealing to the average hardcore 4-channer - they're alienated by society and this dream of checking out of it completely is only natural. A bag of money now is certainly more impactful to them than the medicare they'll need in a dark uncertain future 1 day or 5 decades from now.
It occurred to me that "free college" could be a way to actually meet people with similar interests in the blood and flesh. In the neofeudal future of robots, I guess social meetings to play baseball/build unnecessary houses/play MTG/etc would be a primary function of that type of gathering space for most humans. It'd probably be psychologically healthier to incentivize people to do that if they want, then pay them to stay alone at home all day.