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> sitting at school for 25 hours a week

School is closer to a prison than to a place where one can be creative and build things.

There is historical context why schools are designed and operated in this way: it creates factory workers that follow instructions, not critical thinkers.

Of course, there are schools that use more humane pedagogical methods, but they are the exception.



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