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What's the most polarizing thing you've ever done or said? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yep. Sadly, I'm not sure there's another way for most people. On Lemmy we're mostly nerds, but would most people have learned even basic math if they didn't have to?

In some ways, the most motivated or talented students are just as ill-fitted to the production line system of education as the disabled ones.