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Why The Educational System Is Not In Place (entrepreneur2be.com)

3 points by pepeto ↗ HN
Just to point out - i am not saying that people shouldn't learn at school. Just that they are learning a lot of useless stuff instead of which they should be learning how to use the info they know to become successful.

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designtofly
I disagree with just about every position that the author made. To be brief, I'll only counter the author's main position: "The internet, along with all the other improvements have made the process of finding and acquiring information at cost approaching zero so trivial that the schools now seem out of place." I say that this is exactly the reason why we will need schools even more so. The overwhelming amount of information necessitates a subject matter expert that can cut through the fads and focus on the first principles and fundamentals.

Secondly, any person who advocates for using Wikipedia as a primary source is clearly an idiot who has no appreciation or capability of primary source research.

pepeto
you are a bit harsh but in any way, i am trying to show a different side of learning - one in which you don't need 100% accuracy. If 5% of the information of the information is wrong and it still does the job, what is the point of sweating the lack of perfection? glad to hear opinion though