Before you propose “education” as a solution to anything, consider: most people who take a class do poorly (ie learn the skills imperfectly, get bad grades) and most teachers suck.
If you move to self-directed/ungraded, then it is no longer a tool for a specific social problem.
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Yes, modulo grade inflation on the student end, and low expectations on the teaching end
About 10% of my teachers were good. The rest sucked.
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Isn’t Trust (that the future will continue to deliver this income/lifestyle) the core hard problem for people to overcome?
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Wasn't the argument along the lines of there being a total lack of education related to real-world skills like math and basic reasoning? I heard people in USA tend to not understand fractions and percentages, for example. Fixing that is radically different from topical education.
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We pathologize failure in the administration of education by trying to avoid it. Yearly progress is the norm, so failure is a reflection of low moral worth. Instead, try to obtain failure. Push hard. This destigmatizes failure. Make success a celebration vs failure a millstone.



