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School's purpose should be humanistic rather than economic, and the people who are not academically talented need a welfare state rather than a promise that school will lift them.

Drawn from what Freddie deBoer said

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

education How children are taught and tested: schools, tutoring, what a lesson at the right level does, and what AI changes.

What Freddie deBoer actually said

  1. Freddie deBoer Writer with a PhD in English who taught writing for years
    What we need, ultimately, is a return to a holistic, humanistic vision of what school is for, and we need a robust social safety net to protect those who are not lucky enough to be naturally academically talented.

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