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Could be possible that the school system is also becoming obsolete by the cyberpunk society?
| Is it really better on the Internet though? There's a lot of mis-information online and navigating it can be hard. It seems like you'd waste a lot of energy fact checking when you can have a teacher tell you what to focus on and what to discard.
| >>386298
Actually, all what I learned and was better applied to life and work was topics and free classes I've study on the internet...
Everything I learned at school was always switched by a tool that could do my job rather than I actually applying to something (like calculator, gps, etc).
Also, most of basic things like social interaction, how to live alone and survive with a low income, pay bills and shit was never taught at school and I learned by myself.
| But we need to educate people to make and maintain GPS-satelites and calculators so knowing how to do it by hand is crucial.
Also, didn't you learn how to read and write in school? You certsinly didn't find that out on the Internet.
| Is having parents cyberpunk?
| >>386587 The opposite would be more true. Or better yet, having robot foster parents, but we're not there yet.
| >>386298
Knowledge may be easily accessible, but to practice organizing, synthesizing (hence essays and papers), and analyzing it is also crucial.
A school setting is just an efficient way to provide this for a large number of students with different economic backgrounds. Some parents have enough time, money, and skill to educate their kids, but many don't. Extra benefits: social environment, exposure to activities, physical education, babysitting for busy parents, etc
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| School should be changed to better fit the skills we need in this modern world. Currently, just storing facts about history or learning about the roots of a polynomial is not important to all people. You should learn about life-skills or have it more specific for each student.
| I'm currently going to school, and I think it's still need. I won't explain right now though. Maybe later. I'm tired, and want to play Fortnite.
| >>390781
Yes this! That's true. That's the change that's needed, but schools shouldn't be completely removed.
| I think that you should be able to learn about social skills for your personal needs, depending on your likes and tastes. It seems strange to learn how to socialize through web. Of course, if you want to be part of society in the first place.
| >>391659
That last part isn't really a choices you'll have enough information to take though, if you don't know shit about society.
While I do find some of the socialising stuff in school kind of dumb, I still wouldn't have any social skills not friends if it wasn't for school. And while the stuff I'm best at is the stuff that I have mostly learned from the internet, I wouldn't have been able to really do that without school.
School isn't perfect, but it's still important.
| i don't think its obsolete, but it should definitely focus more on learning skills than the curriculum its based on. but was that not the original goal?
| There will be no change because it's risky. It won't be an international standard and there's no telling whether the new system would work or not.
| Replacing irl schools with online courses may result in workers with poor social skills.
This would reinforce the idea that some workers are superior than others and vertical administrations in businesses, then lead to a low quality of products and lower sales.
One of the main reasons Japan and China are economical potencies are their schools that promote their transversal quality management, among other things, like keeping a clean and secure workspace
| I think that's less a matter of social skills and more extreme collectivism when we talk about Asians.
| >>391696 I was going for the "I choose to be indoors 24/7" and buy stuff online, in which case you don't need big social skills.
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| If you think about it, since the evolution of technology made the possibility of learning about everything for free a real thing, basically schools should be dead by now, but they still around.
Why didn't they become obsolete since there's no need for them anymore, and the knowledge gain through the internet, which can be accessed at any time, is better than what's taught at schools, which is not used in daily activities or for something greater?