Comments on: Someone Who Loves Learning and Hates School https://www.isegoria.net/2015/09/someone-who-loves-learning-and-hates-school/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 21:33:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Candide III https://www.isegoria.net/2015/09/someone-who-loves-learning-and-hates-school/comment-page-1/#comment-2400557 Candide III Tue, 29 Sep 2015 18:37:13 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=38924#comment-2400557 Much that is good in there, but I don’t know how seriously should I take a guy who claims as an achievement that “We had 8th-graders at a Montessori middle school I later created in Palo Alto — our average 8th-grade student scored higher than the average private school senior in the United States.”

Dollars to donuts it’s not East Palo Alto. Also, not all children have sufficient self-discipline without training. Interest alone is usually not enough to put oneself through hundreds of hours of boring practice.

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