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Role of education
Thorndike has an reductionist approach to education, people learn by their own through repetitetive task. And to this day the system is still in use.
"Learning itself was losing its totemic significance at school in favor of another function: sorting worthy students from unworthy"
And argued that, "Those who have the most to begin with gain the most".
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