I’m not worried about that specifically, although it is headed there in some states. It is just the general degradation in the quality of education and the veracity of the information presented at just about every level that really bums me out.

I agree that it shouldn’t result in anyone coming to your house to force the subject. How to present it and provide a service that people can recognize as a net benefit? Decentralized would probably be good but it cannot be denied, as you said, that apprenticeships and hands on learning are very effective. Yet, they are very difficult to decentralize as they require a lot of equipment at each location.

Virtual reality with haptic feedback would be pretty close, if we can get it to work in an open source meshnet sort of way.

I agree with just about everything you said. Well put and reasoned. But it doesn’t really wrap back around to what should be taught to the children. Do we let them decide everything for themselves or regiment what is necessary to live in our hellscape society?

Then you can ask what is necessary to live in this society? Is it comp sci degrees? Everyone thought so. Now they’re basically useless. That has happened to every generation for the last 30 years or so.

Additionally, as a child I was driven to learn because I was genuinely curious despite crushing depression. It has left me grasping to understand how others approach the world, because let me tell you, it is not how I do so. I would need to look at some good data about how students/adults learn generally, which I have not done much of admittedly.

Song of my soul, my voice is dead; Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa.

Robert W. Chambers

I mean I like your ideas but that doesn’t really address the “how” of educating. As in how are those materials presented to people?

How do we ensure that children are actually being educated and not just glazing their eyes over as the info flows past? How do we ensure that that education is not just “God did it, now shit up.” How do we get people to be interested in learning and not just stop the second someone isn’t pointing a gun at their head?

From reading some of the comments here, it seems that some people think learning is a net negative or neutral for whoever is doing the learning and that one should learn as little as possible.

They seem to think that because they don’t literally write down the equation of “x²+6” that they never use it in their lives and so it is pointless to learn.

There are also people who seem to think that basing your education off of what could help you not being taken advantage of, or misunderstanding the world around you, is silly and you should only follow what is in your heart. Learning what interests you and nothing else.

I don’t understand either of you, idiots.

Debate me, I guess.

I’m not even reading this horseshit.

Theists can eat shit and die. Fuck off.

LITERALLY the only good thing I could point to in the United States were the national parks. There nothing else of value either within the society or government.

Good job everyone.

There are literally thousands hundreds dozens a few of us.

You do not need to replace your entire diet with home grown produce. Supplement the food you buy from the store with whatever you can grow in the small area you have. You can get a surprisingly good haul from 25ft².

Plant the 3 sisters (beans, corn, squash/pumpkin) together in a small area to maximize shelf stable production. You will need to do a small amount of research on planting times but the times are fast approaching.