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Sep 26, 2022Liked by Benjamin Yeoh

I really enjoyed that segment of your conversation with Aella. It was perhaps the best first person account of the benefits of home schooling and alternative education and the drawbacks of traditional schooling systems I have ever heard. Immediately after the portion you excerpt here she went on to discuss the challenges she had after school and how she was essentially unemployable, not the least because she was completely unsocialized with any peer group. So again, she articulated as well as anyone the social benefits of participating in a traditional schooling environment, and the critical importance of socialization as much or even maybe more than simply learning to read, write, and math in the education of a child.

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