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Inertia is the default for the individual, but preventing progress across a population in the long term is actually pretty difficult. Culture can run interference, but without top-down control over information, it’s unclear for how long
Parents and communities would want better, if they knew to. An entire social-cultural-regulatory-infrastructural immune system is required to protect extant institutions from people who know enough & are incented to improve them, and the internet is the ultimate monkey wrench
The intertia in education is real, but it's artificially generated and maintained. Parents go to extreme lengths to get incremental improvements within the system — buying a home for the school district, for example — so protecting the status quo is actually a massive project
Lots more to learn about the nature of the beast, but I think it's safe to say that the perceived ultimate superiority of the college degree is the linchpin. That's what gives the extant system the gatekeeping power that terrifies parents who might otherwise listen to their kids
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