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by alchemism 2370 days ago
It’s worth keeping in mind that ‘education’ as we practice it was Roman, passed through cathedral schools for priests to the British Empire, (becoming) what we know of today as academia.

Some further tangential exposition on the topic: https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the...