Morendil comments on What is wrong with mathematics education? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 21 March 2011 07:03:25AM 1 point [-]

School is not for learning lessons, it's for learning meta-lessons, if it has any purpose at all other than babysitting.

The purpose of school, many suspect, is the creation of a compliant populace.

Comment author: komponisto 21 March 2011 07:07:37AM 0 points [-]

I am in fact one of those many.

But this whole discussion was clearly premised on the assumption that some other purpose might be found. (Otherwise, it doesn't matter what the curriculum is.)