The life of a private tutor (2020)
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The life of a private tutor (2020)
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#2Mirror : https://archive.ph/nW0eS
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#3Paywalled - access here https://outline.com/PCcptc
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#4None of this is particularly new. Tutors and "crammers" make regular appearances in older British fiction. The writer Sidney Smith got his start as tutor to a nobleman's son, and facetiously or otherwise suggested that such work was a good step up to a bishopric (though Smith's clerical career not got past dean).
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#5I only got two paragraphs in before my THIS IS FICTION alarm bells were too loud to ignore.
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#6One of the most important competitive advantages in modern world is motivation to do things on your own. And all this tutoring that kids are forced to be doing by adults is killing it.
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#7One would think that in the internet era, where so much information and knowledge are avaialble online for free, those would disappear.
Apprently not.
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#8One would think that in the internet era, where so much information and knowledge are avaialble online for free, those would disappear. Apprently not.
There's no way to replicate the engagement that an actual teacher/tutor can provide. Some people can do just fine with self-directed study but I image most people aren't autodidacts.
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#9One would think that in the internet era, where so much information and knowledge are avaialble online for free, those would disappear. Apprently not.
You can't automate the human interaction out through tech.
That's like expecting coffee vending machines to have made baristas obsolete.
As an adult I can do self study just fine and since I work in tech that's expected of me, but as a kid I was way too thick to learn the school curriculum on my own.
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#10Where is the full article?