You're not wrong...I was way to "advanced" for my public school education too, but I don't think that explains the effects of children being raised by smart devices. It's disturbing to say the least.
Just wanted to comment on your quoting the "advanced" bit. Thinking about this a bit more, what I meant by industrial style peacemal learning is the whole get to school, do a course on math at some random time for about an hour, period rings / run around get some books, take another class for 1 hour, period rings have lunch, then do another independent 2 hour learning sessions on some random subject.
That is NOT how humans learn. That is how you build cars in a factory sure. Maybe if you setup a repeatable learning procedure on a specific sub topic, a project or some actionable thing you might be able to schedule production line system for a while, but noise and chaos always creep in and keeping a production line going is hard.
This just isn't how human brains learn.
We have a lot of tech people here and anyone like that or similar that has to learn new things or embed them selves into a subject matter to REALLY learn it know that:
1) There is a spool up period. Your brain needs to downregulate various subsystems and give your higher order thinking subsystems time to get into the zone.
2) You MUST spend extended periods of time on a specific topic to get any learning or coding done. It's just the way it is, you cannot have perpetual interruptions. You cannot slice it up into 1 hour periods, ring a bell, run around like a monkey without a head finding the right books and running to the next 1 hour slice of time to learn SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
Sure, you need breaks and sometimes you get into an intellectual cul de sac and need to do something else to see a problem from a new direction, but mostly you need to get into the zone and run the zone for a whole bunch of hours.
3) You need to learn only a FEW things at a time. Sure, there are tangents and sometimes you need to veer off for a bit to see how what you are learning relates to something else, but mostly you cannot be learning 4 different things at the same time.
It is a bit of a miracle that education works at all.
I know this is an area many have tried changing how we teach kids, my thinking on this is that it doesn't take a huge change. Learn fewer things for a longer period of time with fewer disruptions while keeping your social groups intact for longer. Mostly we have to take our kids out of public schools and HEAVILY organize local learning groups led by competent and fireable learning guides.
Just a few thoughts.
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