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Seems to me that part of being a hacker is the ability to create despite restrictions. Embracing obstacles, and in doing so overcoming them. Maybe by remove the pre-existing boundaries, you remove part of what makes a hack so great.

By simply removing the obstacle (traditional schooling in this case), doesn't that cheapen the creation? Put another way, if hacking is the status-quo, is it still hacking?

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By simply removing the obstacle (traditional schooling in this case), doesn't that cheapen the creation?

This would be the greatest hack in the fucking world. Replacing the traditional school system.

There will always be restrictions and great things to create. Don't you want more people having the chance to create fantastic things and crush obstacles left and right?

If everyone's standard of living is raised by 10%, then it's still a higher standard of living. If students can create 30% more value than what they do now, it's still value creation.

I know what you mean though, and to a certain extent that might be true. But it doesn't seem like subjecting kids to current public school conditions is a good way of doing things.

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