I agree that having gone to school is probably useful for many types of work, but I suspect that the reliability it trains is pretty specific to those kinds of jobs, whereas I read the original post as talking about reliability in the context of your personal life and social relationships. My hunch is that for social reliability, it’s neutral or a harm. I doubt that hunter-gatherers were unreliable tribesmates due to their lack of schooling.
Hmm. Okay yeah I could see that. In particular, school (esp. American elementary—high school) doesn’t really train “maintaining a schedule in a complex, adaptable environment where you are responsible for making your own plans.” (College sort of does, but still not much)
Whereas I had to learn to be interpersonally dependable by interacting with humans in a looser network of friends and professional colleagues after college.
[Edit: I read the OP as talking about dependability as… I dunno 67% professional/long-term-project sense, 33% social, where the sort-of-school that you can’t just coast through actually helps]
I agree that having gone to school is probably useful for many types of work, but I suspect that the reliability it trains is pretty specific to those kinds of jobs, whereas I read the original post as talking about reliability in the context of your personal life and social relationships. My hunch is that for social reliability, it’s neutral or a harm. I doubt that hunter-gatherers were unreliable tribesmates due to their lack of schooling.
Hmm. Okay yeah I could see that. In particular, school (esp. American elementary—high school) doesn’t really train “maintaining a schedule in a complex, adaptable environment where you are responsible for making your own plans.” (College sort of does, but still not much)
Whereas I had to learn to be interpersonally dependable by interacting with humans in a looser network of friends and professional colleagues after college.
[Edit: I read the OP as talking about dependability as… I dunno 67% professional/long-term-project sense, 33% social, where the sort-of-school that you can’t just coast through actually helps]