nymnympseudonym

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[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

competition model only works in urban environments

I live in a rural area, my kids went to Montessori. 30 mins drive each way for me.

And of course there is the Internet now. It is not a drop-in replacement, but for some kids and some subjects it works very well.

We can have regulation, education requirements, and standards while still encouraging healthy competition.

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

They're gonna string him up like il Duche when they realize what we all know

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

"Good czar, bad boyars"

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

TBF, I am critical of Luigi and find myself having to tread on thin ice with my opinons

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

TBF, there is a system in the US that tends to enforce mediocrity, spends a lot of money on bloated administration, and is both fearful of competition and willing to resort to politically dirty tricks to maintain their education monopoly.

I remember a Steve Jobs interview in Wired many years ago, he said his wish was for a group of energetic people graduating college to be able to start a school, just as readily as they could start a restaurant or a landscaping business -- both of which, it should be pointed out, are regulated industries with licensing and safety standards.

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

merciles ridicule

... only entrenches people in their positions

Especially for religious identity and other identity politics.

The way to flip such positions is to provide role models, people who are still clearly identified in the group, but who embrace -- to the degree possible -- tolerant liberal democratic evidence-based social structures.

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

"We are in a race between education and oblivion" -R B Fuller

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

I think this is a really important point.

We as a society, as a civilization, have to figure out free speech/unfettered inquiry versus disinformation/objectively falsified (or even weaponized) speech

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Ditto. Use libreddit instances to read, but I do not feed the beast

... and how many, like myself, were permabanned with no warnings by overzealous lemmy.ml mods?

(For posts that no, were not racist or -phobic )

 

Detailed journalism. Irrational dangerous people.

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is the story that gets him Gaddafi'D

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