One would think that in the internet era, where so much information and knowledge are avaialble online for free, those would disappear. Apprently not.
The bigger the deluge of information, the more valuable a guide becomes to navigate it.
The life of a private tutor (2020)
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#12Where is the full article?
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#13I only got two paragraphs in before my THIS IS FICTION alarm bells were too loud to ignore.
Just over ten years ago, the NY Times had an article about a disappointed parent suing a tutoring company. I forget what her beef was, but she had paid out $35 thousand in the course of a year.
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#14I only got two paragraphs in before my THIS IS FICTION alarm bells were too loud to ignore.
Just over ten years ago, the NY Times had an article about a disappointed parent suing a tutoring company. I forget what her beef was, but she had paid out $35 thousand in the course of a year.
That seems entirely plausible. That's in the same territory as boarding school prices for one kid (some are more expensive, of course, but it's around the same price as that sort of thing), so clearly there exist people willing and able to pay that much for their kids' education. Hell, with a couple kids you can break that much per year at a cheap-end-of-mid-priced day school.
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#15I only got two paragraphs in before my THIS IS FICTION alarm bells were too loud to ignore.
I have seen this kind of thing directly. Kids in private school who take their homework to the “tutoring session” where the tutor basically does it for them. My own kid did tutoring for beer money while in school.
I don’t think the article is fundamentally fictional, though clearly some of the retelling has been dressed up a bit.
Re: The life of a private tutor (2020)
#16One 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.
So true but this youngster doesn't sound like someone who needs to win, he is already made. All he (or his parents) want is to look like they are successful by saying, "Little Johnny got 15 GCSEs".
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#17I only got two paragraphs in before my THIS IS FICTION alarm bells were too loud to ignore.
Why is it fiction? People who are rich enough to pay an entire yacht crew are not going to worry about $50K a year for a tutor to try and make their lazy waste-of-space child at least have half a chance of creating their own success when they are older.
Re: The life of a private tutor (2020)
#18One 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.
> important competitive advantages in modern world is motivation to do things on your own
.. but if you don't have that?
Besides, tutoring can be a bootstrap to that, especially in young people. I've found myself that exercise is so much more likely to happen if it's not on my own, such as a regular personal trainer appointment. The more it becomes a habit, the more I feel like doing some more on my own as well.
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#19One would think that in the internet era, where so much information and knowledge are avaialble online for free, those would disappear. Apprently not.
A guide is more important than ever. Information is properly assimilated through some mental schema. When teachers talk about teaching people "how to learn", they're talking about helping a student to form those schemata (as well as specific techniques, etc.)
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#20One would think that in the internet era, where so much information and knowledge are avaialble online for free, those would disappear. Apprently not.
Knowledge access is hardly the problem.