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Exactly, gigantic workshop of manual craftsmen (or a huge bureaucratic coop of sharecroppers) instead of an industrial factory.

And related classic to enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axWVMr-RpMM :)



How do you imagine that to happen? I could see more self-guided and technology-driven learning work well for older kids, but not for even young teenagers. The kids at that age lack discipline and a lot of subjects start it quite boring (basic reading and spelling, math doesn't get fun to several years in, rode memorization in there beginning for foreign language studies etc). Many kids will find ways to distract themselves from that without supervision. We've seen that parents providing that supervision for remote studies doesn't work in many cases


i don't know in details for everything, yet just for example

>rode memorization in there beginning for foreign language studies

that is how i was taught English, and that loses orders of magnitude on all metrics to how for example Russian immigrant children of my friends naturally picked the language upon coming here. Technology provides a lot in the direction of such an opportunity without actually needing to physically visit the foreign country.

>The kids at that age lack discipline and a lot of subjects start it quite boring (basic reading and spelling, math doesn't get fun to several years in ...) ... Many kids will find ways to distract themselves from that without supervision.

Couple things come to mind:

- one can imagine something like competitively organized quests in Minecraft built around knowledge to learn

- FB spent enormous resources of how to turn people into dopamine monkey. May be some of that or similar research can be utilized here to provide for children focus on the learning. Status update broadcasted across the class "Alice just learned a new formula worth 5 shiny stars".




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