Is There a Difference Between School and Workplace?

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i'm curious if they're ways in which the negative view of humanity, in your view, has been, like, built into our political structure in even deeper ways. You are talking about prisons, but ah, in terms of just our more fundamentaltuctures or ideas about society. Sir? Well, i can give a lot of examples. I think we we just got a look at our institutions first. Most schools still rely on the idea that you need to put knowledge into the brains of kids. Can't you do that differently? Ye, you can. There are some radical schools out there that have abolished home work, abolished most of the hierarchy. Same is true for the work

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