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Homeschooling often gets confused with self-directed education, aka “unschooling”. These are not the same.

The former tends to replicate school and requires a teacher, usually a parent. It’s basically school with added/paced/altered/enriched curriculum at the cost of socialization, although that can be compensated with other forms of peer groups, especially in urban area. Comparing this method versus school A or school B is pretty much like comparing school A and B as two schools can be as different as any given school and homeschool.

The latter is what John Holt referred to as homeschooling but is based on self-determination theory and has an abundance of science to support it. Neuroscience backs this theory too, I think the rate at which active learning learns is somewhere around x20 faster than passive learning (ie “teaching”). Very serious folks like John Holt, Peter Gray, or Akilah Richards to name a few have dedicated their life work to supporting self-directed education as a superior form of education. What Peter Gray’s research shows shows is that outcomes are basically the same except for life satisfaction and psychological outcomes. In essence, it leads to same rates of secondary education, jobs and socio-economical outcomes, except an unschooled child makes for a much happier adult later on.

Sadly, because the majority of people went through contemporary schooling or some version of it, people’s biases makes people not want to hear this.

I’m not sure what the OP’s circle looks like but I would be surprised if none of those so called “techs pro-homeschooling” are only doing the school at home version without having stumbled upon any of the science around self-directed.


> abundance of science to support it

A few citations would be helpful.


have a read through peter Gray's articles on the Psychology Today website. They cite quite a lot of research.


Can you cite some of these claims, to guide someone like myself who has never heard of any of these things?



> Homeschooling often gets confused with self-directed education, aka “unschooling”. These are not the same.

There are also a lot of other approaches. Home education is a blanket term for every approach to education other than schools with class rooms.

I think my own approach was a hybrid. I expected academic progress (especially in English and maths, which are enablers for studying other things), but let the kids follow their interests too.


That’s right. And at the other end of that spectrum, there is what some refer to as “radical unschooling” which gives total agency to the child over the material they’ll learn. I know some radical unschoolers who’ve even ended-up in conventional schools because it was their decision. It may sound like a paradox but it happens, usually not more than a few years though, but again, depends on what’s available to them wherever they live, and also the friends/peers and what they are doing too. I think these choices come down to the child, parenting style and the environment in which the child evolves. There is no right or wrong in my opinion.

In his 2017 paper[1], Peter Gray goes in depth on all the different self-directed education approaches including some of the well-known self-directed “schools”, from Summerhill in the UK to Sudbury Valley in the U.S.

[1] https://cdn2.psychologytoday.com/assets/self-directed_ed.-pu...


> You can reasonably withhold a tip from someone who is actively hostile or incompetent, but really all you're doing is making yourself feel better.

Well, one could argue that this is effectively NOT making you feel better, quite the opposite. Empathy is what makes people feel better. So to counter-argue your point, tipping someone despite the fact you may have negative feelings about their service or judge incompetent, is empathy.

As a native French/European person, I've always thought of tipping as counter-intuitive, i.e. "why is the tip not included?". But after a few years in the U.S., I realized that this is actually a small gesture of appreciation that -- even if insignificant because so normalized -- will make the person serving you feel a little better about their job and themselves.

For that reason, I am now on the "always tip" camp.


If that's the case for tipping then why aren't all service jobs "tipping jobs"? I mean you wouldn't tip at mcdonalds, right?


And why don't people tip bus drivers, airline check in clerks, the counter staff at Hertz, etc.? Some check out operators in supermarkets are more efficient than others, should they be tipped?

What is it that makes restaurant and bar staff special?



> anyone willing to spend a few grand a year

sounds like there has been a lot of inflation in only 33yrs. what caused this?


The value of a high-throughput network interconnect slot from your peers is tied to the current value of all the cryptocurrencies the DHT routes, not just the cost of running the server and the physical links.


postgrest.com vs postgres.rest: this is a bit confusing. Why not pick a different name?


programming language writter, postgrest.com = haskell postgres.rest = golang

Read more in: https://github.com/nuveo/prest/issues/41


i'd say all 3 projects have unfortunate names :) PostgreSQL/PostgREST/postgres.rest Some say that's why MySql is more popular ...


I don't get how this would prevent border agents from asking to unlock / turn off travel mode.

Why not make this feature tied to a geo-location? Like the hotel or the conference centre I will be attending.


AFAIK you can only deactivate the travel mode on the web profile. Of course it would be much more effective when you use it in the team mode. So that someone else has to deactivate the mode for you.


If you're looking for a guide/checklist before going through the "The Twelve Tasks of Asterix"[1] involved in setting-up a startup, I found this one particularly helpful: https://github.com/leonar15/startup-checklist

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Tasks_of_Asterix



my 2 c: people whose project went unnoticed on HN left HN a long time ago and are thus not here to answer your question


Woz also clarified, on HN, some of the things that were said about his relationship with Jobs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8701997


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