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I just don't think that a classroom can possibly match the free-form, consequential education that comes from serious one-on-one time with a skilled, productive adult performing a consequential task. It is extremely likely that European schools are much better teaching math than American schools are, and I admit that my perspective is characteristically American, but I don't think I've ever been as impressed as I am by students and scholars who had the benefit of extensive non-classroom time with free-form learning from a learned tutor.

If you look at another of my response comments to my parent comment, I mention that I don't really know if the system could be replaced with something better, but I don't think standardized education is good for anyone when compared to non-standardized education.

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> I just don't think that a classroom can possibly match the free-form, consequential education that comes from serious one-on-one time with a skilled, productive adult performing a consequential task.

While true, I just don't think a one-on-one education, however skilled the tutor might be, could possibly match the social development that comes as consequence of classroom education.

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Is it really your opinion that students of modern education are "well-socialized"?

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My opinion is that students not on classrooms are much less prepared to deal with those, according to you, non "well-socialized" students from traditional schools.

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Children who grow up spending the majority of their time in school are raised by their peers, rather than by productive adults. They look to each other for behavioral and moral cues. I have found that students from classrooms are, on the whole, rude, lazy, arrogant, cruel, apathetic, jealous, dishonest, narcissistic, anxious, and depressed.

I admit that their ability to not embarrass themselves among their peers is greater than those who are homeschooled or from experimental private schools, and their traditionally-schooled biting, ironic sarcasm is unmatched among the more naive non-schooled population. Traditional schoolchildren are also much better at taking instructions, falling in line, acquiescing to the wishes of their superiors, and bearing assaults on decency and freedom without complaint.

I made it through 12 years of public school and am extraordinarily "well-socialized", and I am disgusted by what it took to make me that way. It's only now that I've been out of school for about a decade that I've finally started to turn into a human being.