IMHO this is true in a deep way, even more so for little kids than big people. From infancy children want to "do-with" and as every parent knows "telling-how" or "telling-to" works only in the most rare of circumstances, with only the most mature of kids. But a kid who has learned via "do-with" then graduates to "do-myself" and then to "i-did-it-myself" the autonomous feeling from which is the greatest. Then groups can learn "we-did-ourselves" etc.
With big people of course the "apprenticeship beats classrooms" manifests in so many ways- everyone who "learns more in 4 months of work than in 4 years of school" is familiar with this.
I love (public) schools and academia and think on the whole they are treasured institutions, but there is a degree to which their presence and mode of operation leads to deprioritization of "doing-with", and this is very unfortunate.
With big people of course the "apprenticeship beats classrooms" manifests in so many ways- everyone who "learns more in 4 months of work than in 4 years of school" is familiar with this.
I love (public) schools and academia and think on the whole they are treasured institutions, but there is a degree to which their presence and mode of operation leads to deprioritization of "doing-with", and this is very unfortunate.