Thread by @17cShyteposter

Modern people act like early childhood education is a magical substance that finally makes brains bigger, as if the education medieval + prehistoric children got in helping their families survive/not get killed by nature was somehow less "real" than this, or learning that 2+2 = 5

We have been brainmaxxing our children since the dawn of time, parents have always been training them to be as useful and knowledgable as possible to not succumb to Malthus

As much as "neuroplasticity" is real we've been maxing it out in kids since before homo sapiens existed

Mass education serves two purposes:

1) Installing the culture's religious/moral values in children, and

2) Identifying kids who are unusually talented for whatever their background might be, and allowing them to pursue those talents beyond what they would have been able to

As far as 2), we've already maxed that out as hard as possible. There's no more blood to be squeezed from that stone

Yet the project of education is still treated not only as if we still have leaps and bounds to make on 2), but that *every* kid is a 2)

All science rejects this.

Since 2) has been maxed out, and virtually all children alive have been pushed to the limits of "neuroplasticity" (which again, almost all always were), all that's left is 1): the teaching of modern religious/moral values

Which believe, oddly enough... that education is magic!

In terms of making children any smarter, there is nothing left for education to do. It already did what little remained in the last century. Good job.

All that remains of the expansion of education is moral instruction. Any hope of closing gaps?

Pure cope. And nothing more.