It's as Basic as Binary

Schools should be workshops, not assembly lines, classes should be safe mazes through which everyone can find their way (more or less), not some steeple chase the running of which proves mostly the speed of the runners, the arbitrary-ness of height and hurdle.

What if, instead, kids made shoes?

Oh, yes, you will say.  Good idea.  Super.  Turn schools into sweatshops.

No, Not hardly.

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