42 sats \ 15 replies \ @Satosora 24 Jul \ parent \ on: Punishment is a Public Good econ
I think we are getting off topic.
I said that public schools are better than no education.
Unschool is a type of education, as homeschooling is another type.
In that case, I'd say that there's no such thing as no education. We're pattern seeking animals and learning is involuntary.
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What I mean is in a general sense of schooling.
Of course people are able to learn and manage life through their experiences.
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If unschooling counts as education, then there's no meaningful line between education and not education.
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Unschooling is not uneducated. I think the original comparison should have been uneducated vs. public School educated.
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If unschooling is learning from unstructured experiences, what could be a better counterfactual for assessing the value added by government schools?
It's not like I'm asserting that government school isn't better than being locked in a basement.
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If your ambitious enough you'll build up either way. There's plenty of evidence to this effect.
Government schools give you a foundation of education to build your life on.
Just because you say this doesn't make it true. Most students retain essentially nothing from their years in government school. If you mean that it makes that foundation available, then I agree, but most students don't actually take advantage of it.
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