Lockdown swung us to the other side of the spectrum. The catch is that the ideal balance varies per child and is dependent on more factors than we can control.
The odd thing about 'socialization' is that it really means 'age segregated groups in a highly organized situation'.
Really, it's a thing that never existed until the last 100-150 years or so.
Are you campaigning for self-directed learning like in the Sudbury Valley model?
Yep, those are the same qualities of Sudbury Valley schools!
https://www.reimaginedonline.org/2013/06/why-i-started-my-ow...
Is it desirable? I don't know. I suppose it's well suited to producing certain types of workers.
We've got much smaller family sizes than 100-150 years ago, and much less "go run around town with your friends", so for better or worse, in-person school is the main form of non-virtual socialization a lot of kids get outside of their parents.
Like, open offices increase efficiency too right? So why wouldn't they be perfect for education, let's say a few hundred kid in same space?