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by pksebben 1245 days ago
that "underachiever" thing .. I've begun to see how woefully inadequate our systems for learning are for leveraging the potential in some folks, like me, and I imagine yourself.

Because I'm not dumb. I'd bet you aren't, either. But our social sorting hat is opinionated and we're not it's favorite.

Thank Cerf for the Internet, or I'd have been SOL. I don't do well in classrooms, but I've managed to learn every bit I might have needed and more. I think that we're about due for a competitor to the traditional school model.

Power to the regular folks.