One of the questions I hope you guys discuss- is accelerating subject learning ultimately just like accelerating “learning to walk”, or “hitting puberty”? I’m sure it can be done, and data will show its effect, but does it make a difference in the long run if everyone gets there at some point anyway? If, hypothetically, you had a randomized group of kids, would life outcomes be different between those who were accelerated vs not? I acknowledge that this is an “ideal world” scenario, because in the real world being a couple grade levels ahead of your peers in school and college opens up many doors that would otherwise be shut, and you need to keep with the educational Joneses. But that raises the question of whether crackdowns on after school tutoring to “cool the market” will be necessary to get everyone out of the arms race for their own good.
This “people learn at different rates, all we care about is the end point” was the philosophy adopted by my residency program, which
@astupple might relate to. At the end of a few years, it didn’t make that much of a difference who learned things early vs later.
