Age segregated education may be valuable until post-adolescence. However, exposure to non-age related experiential learning after, say, age 15 bolsters developmental maturity. My senior year in high school ('68), having satisfied academic requirements, I took electronics, auto shop, machine shop and stagecraft (my dad taught woodworking at home). That year, the eleven previous grades began to make sense. As an adult, I have met far too many 'papered' knuckleheads.
"... education, open discourse, and opportunity—that nurture reasoning across all ages." Are these not the essential, primal functions of parents in a family?
Example of adolescent confusion: Young man wearing a “Che lives!” T-shirt also wearing a beret sporting a “Free Tibet!” pin.
Age segregated education may be valuable until post-adolescence. However, exposure to non-age related experiential learning after, say, age 15 bolsters developmental maturity. My senior year in high school ('68), having satisfied academic requirements, I took electronics, auto shop, machine shop and stagecraft (my dad taught woodworking at home). That year, the eleven previous grades began to make sense. As an adult, I have met far too many 'papered' knuckleheads.
"... education, open discourse, and opportunity—that nurture reasoning across all ages." Are these not the essential, primal functions of parents in a family?