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It depends on what you define as education. I never knew anyone who accomplished anything great being ignorant.

The right kind of education helps to assess risk.

top down "education". the most valuable "lessons" are learnt through doing. through play. trial and error. not by some non-doer telling

would this 'kind' of education you refer to, be more like advice ? if so, I agree.

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Is reading a fairy tale to my kids not education? I would say it is and it teaches the kid about the world. In fact, nothing that people count as education would negatively affect risk assessment as when it does, it's arguably not education.

I would just consider it information transmission. She can interpret how she likes. But if you try to point to specific packets of information or frame it in a way then it would be more educational - because your intention is to have her see the world as you do

I might pick tales based on my world views but for example "Peter and the wolf" is very square in your face educational and has little to do with world views but a lot with risk assessment. And I would argue that **all** tales are highly educational. They help embed the kid in a social framework which often times also addresses more or less specific risks.

Yeah i see your point. The author is trying to educate in a way by having written the thing

Even if the author is not trying to educate with what he's writing like "Peter and the wolf" might well be doing, stories exemplify human interaction. They teach about "good" and more importantly "evil" so the reader or listener can recognize it when he sees it in the real world. But authors almost always try to write believable stories which implies they have to use plausible characters and take an effort explaining the character if it's outside the society's norms, by which stories always educate about society and norms.

I’m assuming that you are referring to formal education when you mention “top-down education”. Hands-on learning has always been a key focus at high-quality academic institutions. Formal education or degrees/certifications are not necessary for success, do not indicate intellectual superiority, but they are not useless either. I have thoughts on why certain people, groups, and/or political ideologies attack formal education and do not want the public to pursue higher education, but Nostr is not the space where people would be interested in or receptive to that discussion.