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by zozbot234 933 days ago
Not crazy at all. Even the most cursory application of individual tutoring in today's mass education settings comes with a 2-sigma disparity in outcomes compared to ordinary teaching. And that's disregarding everything else that might have been different about these elite tutoring practices - including, yes, a less standard and more creative education, compared to the modern focus on one-size-fits-all.