Technical learning of any sort (looms or calculus) is really the least important consequence of schooling - if it takes 20 years, fine.
The fundamental error is to assume that socialization (for which nearly all humans are genetically optimized) and training in symbolic methods (for which most humans are rather ill-suited) should proceed apace.
Technical learning of any sort (looms or calculus) is really the least important consequence of schooling - if it takes 20 years, fine.
The fundamental error is to assume that socialization (for which nearly all humans are genetically optimized) and training in symbolic methods (for which most humans are rather ill-suited) should proceed apace.