{"id":5403,"date":"2024-05-29T12:48:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=5403"},"modified":"2024-05-29T12:48:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T12:48:18","slug":"a-theoretical-case-against-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/29\/a-theoretical-case-against-education\/","title":{"rendered":"A Theoretical Case Against Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Asking some very tough questions about school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Most of these are the kinds of facts that I would expect school to teach people. Some of them (eg the branches of government) are the foundations of whole subjects, facts that I would expect to get reviewed and built upon many times during a student\u2019s career. If most people don\u2019t remember them, there seems to be little hope that they remember basically anything from school. So what\u2019s school even doing?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/a-theoretical-case-against-education\">https:\/\/www.astralcodexten.com\/p\/a-theoretical-case-against-education<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asking some very tough questions about school. Most of these are the kinds of facts that I would expect school to teach people. Some of them (eg the branches of government) are the foundations of whole subjects, facts that I would expect to get reviewed and built upon many times during a student\u2019s career. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1p9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5404,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5403\/revisions\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}