if one aspired to the long term destruction of a society, it would be difficult to improve upon “turning its institutions of learning into calamitous clown colleges whose output lacks basic skills or grounding” and then mandating that all children participate in that system for an enormous portion of their childhood.
this is painfully obvious to anyone who cares to spend more than a cursory moment thinking about it and yet somehow we keep doing the same things over and over and expecting some sort of better result.
but better is not coming and it’s not going to come until we radically rethink the manner in which we think about education.
Read the rest here. I disagree somewhat with his solution, letting AI play an important role in the future of education, however, he is completely correct with his assessment of the current system. The reality of the situation is the complete failure of education is part of a much larger puzzle. We need to rethink a bunch of things to get our nation back on track, not the least of which begins with the family unit being made more important than government handouts.