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04:16 adlai http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/alethepedia/2020-09-24#1000343 << my opinions on the sequencing of mathematics curricula are unconventional; c.f. ...
04:16 snsabot Logged on 2020-09-24 18:11:37 asciilifeform: adlai: it was a freshman-level text.
04:17 adlai !s kindergarden
04:17 lekythion 14 results
04:17 lekythion http://www.understandfrance.org/France/Education3.html
04:17 lekythion Learning Economics in French High Schools ; main issues of the French educational system ;
04:17 lekythion Main issues of education in France (#3) The French economic illiteracy French Nobel prize(s) Problems in the French system (credit...
04:17 lekythion ...formation) At all levels, from *kindergarden* to university, the rate...
04:17 lekythion http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-26
04:17 lekythion tmsr - Log 2017-05-26
04:17 lekythion log☇︎ ← ︎2017-05-25 ⏐ ︎2017-05-27...
04:17 lekythion ...raw=true mod6: I think what is simple, obvious, and *kindergarden*-esq...
04:17 lekythion All results can be found at http://paste.deedbot.org/?id=4c4B
04:19 * adlai realizes that 'kindergarden' in #t was often used jokingly, although actually spending ~7 semesters in undergraduate courses during the past four years has cast doubt upon the perceived irony.
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14:06 asciilifeform adlai: 'kindergarten' subj is simply what was once called 'trivial' (in orig. meaning of the term -- part of 'the trivium' of basic subjs). simply means that anyone who has ever taken the trouble to start on a topic seriously, oughta have mastered $topic .
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15:38 gregorynyssa http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/alethepedia/2020-09-29#1000411 << I have been trying to research the origins of American-style education, but it has been hard to find the answers to certain questions.
15:38 snsabot Logged on 2020-09-29 14:06:23 asciilifeform: adlai: 'kindergarten' subj is simply what was once called 'trivial' (in orig. meaning of the term -- part of 'the trivium' of basic subjs). simply means that anyone who has ever taken the trouble to start on a topic seriously, oughta have mastered $topic .
15:39 gregorynyssa how come America is one of the only countries on earth where you must first obtain an unrelated four-year degree before studying law and medicine?
15:40 gregorynyssa why do some colleges in America explicitly brand themselves as "liberal arts colleges?" when did this begin? did those academics regard their forebears the British as not being in sufficient possession of "liberal arts?"
15:42 gregorynyssa why does the American undergraduate degree follow (to some extent) the Prussian model, but American high schools do not?
15:43 gregorynyssa specifically, American undergraduate degrees follow the Prussian /high school/ model.
15:44 gregorynyssa why the need for this infantilization? why did Americans willingly concede that their college students are merely on par with German high-school students? etc. etc.
15:50 gregorynyssa asciilifeform: thimbronion: adlai: if anyone has recommended reading, I would be glad to receive it.
16:00 thimbronion gregorynyssa: have you read John Taylor Gatto?
16:00 thimbronion !s gatto
16:00 lekythion 3 results
16:00 lekythion http://btcbase.org/log/2015-08-06
16:00 lekythion tmsr - Log 2015-08-06
16:00 lekythion log☇︎ ← ︎2015-08-05 ⏐ ︎2015-08-07...
16:00 lekythion ...thing.asciilifeform: (see john *gatto* etc.)trinque: asciilifeform...
16:00 lekythion http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-13
16:00 lekythion tmsr - Log 2015-09-13
16:00 lekythion log☇︎ ← ︎2015-09-12 ⏐ ︎2015-09-14...
16:00 lekythion ...agonizing detail by john t *gatto* ☝︎assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015...
16:00 lekythion All results can be found at http://paste.deedbot.org/?id=cuGz
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16:53 gregorynyssa thimbronion: yes I have but I think his narrative is completely incorrect.
16:54 gregorynyssa moreover, his Ultimate History Lesson presentation was blatantly aimed at
16:54 gregorynyssa lower middle-class people seeking to enter the upper middle-class.
16:55 thimbronion gregorynyssa: honestly haven't read Gatto since the early 2000s, while trapped in a government cube farm.
16:56 gregorynyssa thimbronion: you used to work for the federal government? nice.
16:56 thimbronion Yeah thankfully got out relatively quickly.
16:57 gregorynyssa I sometimes think that, had I avoided serious injury as a teen, and completed my
16:58 gregorynyssa education, I might have made a decent IRS agent.
16:58 gregorynyssa or other bureau-employee.
16:59 gregorynyssa haha.. btw. I had no idea Gatto had been writing for that long. I have only seen his fairly recent work.
17:00 thimbronion gregorynyssa as IRS agent is a terrifying alternate universe to consider
17:04 gregorynyssa Gatto was against adoption. he claimed that adopted children more easily become Psychopaths.
17:05 gregorynyssa he claimed that the upper-class purposely promoted the idea of adoption as a way
17:05 gregorynyssa of disrupting and weakening the middle-class
17:07 gregorynyssa Ultimate History Lesson contains one claim after the other in that vein.
17:09 gregorynyssa wonder what asciilifeform thinks. (=
17:09 thimbronion I have personally experienced adoption - two adopted sisters.
17:12 thimbronion I have no idea as to whether the upper class has encouraged it or to what end, but definitely should only be practiced by couples who can't conceive.
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18:19 thimbronion Incidentally now that I have the whole nsabot db logs loaded into postgres, wainot ditch Lucene and just use Postgres for everything?
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