Maybe hot take…

I can see the point of sameness in homeschooling, but compared to traditional education? I’m not sure how much flexibility one would have to teach oneself calculus by 11 or the equivalent of an undergrad in math by 14!

That flexibility must be found in something non-traditional!

I’m no prodigy at all whatsoever but school was mostly dull and filled with teenager drama! Nobody knew what Linux was, cared about music production or anything interesting! The talk was which boy/girl whatever

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cultofmetatron 5 days ago | parent [-]

its so much better nowadays. I"m 40 now and I'm low key jelous of kids today. Today if you want to learn to code, you have freecode camp and chatgpt to ask questions. Math? there's mathacademy and khanacademy. There are so many options now for learning stuff that we didn't have

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pmdr 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Learning opportunities are indeed better. But time sinks such as TikTok and YouTube have gotten exponentially better (read: addictive). I think there's a higher overall likelihood that a kid gets trapped in doomscrolling than in Khan Academy.

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shivasaxena 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm 36, but to be fair even in late 90s when we were kids we had

1) Forums like askanexper(can't remember the exact name) 2) great books like sams teach yourself in 24 hours and a habit to spend time in library 3) most importantly not as much competition as we have today. There were like a 2-3 kids in my schools of 2k who were into programming. Today that would be approaching half.

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kiba 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Very difficult to take advantage of if you don't have good control over your brain.

I am learning bit and pieces on how to do this but it's a long and uncertain process. Conflict monitoring is willpower is a new concept to me but it gave me a framework on how to improve my discipline over time.

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SJC_Hacker 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So many options but also a corresponding amount of competition and pressure

And with social media, you aren't just comparing yourself to your classmates, but with basically the entire world

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ronjakoi 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

For those who speak strong English, yes

	▲	erazor42 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		khan academy is available in many language