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		littlestymaar 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It's hard to stop Math Acceleration once you start That's the problem when you start worshipping competition: when competition becomes central to your society and institutions then you're going to have lots of popular pressure to make the competition “fair”.

HPsquared 9 months ago [–]

It's a couple of things.

1. Treating education as a competitive sport/ tournament (zero-sum thinking).

2. Blank slate theory, assuming if a kid does well it's because of external factors.

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