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    i wonder if at some point, or rather when, our k-12 education system (besides basic reading, writing, math) will be obsolete to the internet.

    i don't want to totally discredit it, but when you really break it down the current education system is based upon:
    1. Discipline
    2. Books
    3. The idea that all information essentially lives in teachers and must be passed down verbally.

    Discipline, well that's just corporate training.

    Books are outdated and now less-favored in society to the computer.

    Today a kid can google an answer to anything in the vast universe, far beyond what the teacher knows, and get the correct answer faster than had the student asked the teacher.

    i grew up without the internet (graduated high school 1995) and when i look back at all the stupid crap i had to memorize in school, such as chemistry or history or whatever, it just feels like a huge waste of time in my life that i could have rather been focusing on what i chose to study. If I really need that useless information today, i just google it.

    it seems like school is really about parents having a 'free babysitter' most of the year.. just saying.

    technology should be forcing us to look outside the box about the traditional ways of schooling - which is based upon limited access to information.

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