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> classroom with a single teacher tasked with educating a room of people who might not be interested...and apprentice with one person who likely is interested

In my experience, the "should be apprentice" in a class is the one ends up being frustrated by the class environment because they care.

I see classes like commercial farms - everyone gets the same amount of water, nutrients, sunlight... An apprentice's master is like an expert gardener who notice when one plant needs less sunlight and provides shade. And provides calcium when one plant needs it.

That's why small time farmers are usually the ones who create freakishly big tomatoes, carrots, pumpkins... These freakish farm produces created through painstaking personalized education would be called geniuses if they were humans.

In small classes, students often get this personalized treatment. But majority of classes aren't small.



I think that's accurate, but really illustrates my point that this is a more apples to oranges type comparison.

Classrooms (at least thinking of a US style education) are for the masses.

Apprenticeships are for the handful of folks who really care ... that's not many people and in so many ways really isn't for everyone.




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