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The problem with that, however, is that how I learned to learn in school was entirely ineffective for me. I struggled for YEARS, barely passing math courses, needing special tutoring, HATING history, because it was all presented as some sort of "GET THIS IN YOUR HEAD" problem. There was another HN discussion slightly digging at public schools, let me make clear this was across both private and public schools, the public in fact being _far better_ at treating students like individuals for the most part.

It took me the better part of college to re-teach myself how to think, I largely attribute it to learning how to be a good CSer on my own effort. (To be clear, not that my effort was anything special, but it let me for once see how I wanted to approach the work, rather than a parent or teacher pressing their structure on it)

I'm not sure what my full takeaway from this is, I certainly expect my anecdote not to hold true universally, I think I mostly intend to warn against an inflexible framework for "teaching learning" (as schools so often tend to be, through natural if unmalicious incentives), lest the process become nothing more than an indoctrination into the life lesson of "you will sit here, do this terribly boring and unproductive thing, and have no say in the matter, and will likely be punished regardless".