And teacher pay is low because the teaching is substandard. It’s a Catch 22 that really amounts to the public school industry having low market value in a world where Youtube, Kahn Academy, and Wikipedia exist at the tips of everyone’s fingers.
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Low prices for labor directly correlate to the demand for your job. That’s why McDonald’s employees are screaming for higher wages, and Ronald McDonald is going to replace them with giant touchscreens instead.pic.twitter.com/gBUjgOKooz
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Agree entirely, this is why its so tricky. We (markets) haven't found an optimal solution with scale to educating young persons. Semi-referencing Ari's points, the system is built to be socialized and offset from market forces. Problem is, it wasn't socialized enough.
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So when you semi subsidize an (essential) service, you are providing it training wheels to compete in the markets. If the handicap is enough to offset market deterioration, your system will Clearly the US Edu model was not built with robust geopolitic competitiveness in mind.
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So we took fair market forces out of the equation, and subsidized them with a short sighted socialized economic model. Either the government isn't doing enough for education, or it should pivot direction and do dramatically less whilst reopening fair market doors.
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But then who will brainwash the kids for them? Who will teach the kids how to be docile debt slaves to the state? Who will create the reality distortion field of American Exceptionalism and encourage them to join the military and murder brown people with robots from the sky?
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If your going to nationalize and subsidize education, you better do it all in and correctly. That still has immense flaws, but it works most of the time, for most parties. Today the justification necessitating this would be nonsensical because such great digital mediums exist.
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If anything from the previous model is to be kept, it would be on the community orienting perspective. Gov/Uni's facilitate a space for communal learning, and organizing bodies in a physical space, the actual bulk of the knowledge is mediated by the information markets.
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Mooc's are great, but so is being in a room with 300 other idiots and 1 expert to craft foundational theories for hungry minds. Can't negate the role of physical interaction, and that's a tricky thing to incentivize and provide governance for in a digital way(alone).
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Why does that role have to be governmental school related? Why can’t free people with shared values meet each other in person and work and learn together?
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