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The real solution is taking all that money that is going to these VC funds to milk public services and putting that into the actual service. It doesn't take a huge amount of investment to do it, just make teachers happy to be there, and give them time to nurture children's curiosity. So much education has ended up in this cycle based on exactly what you're talking about, looking at spreadsheets and grades, and cramming knowledge into kids rather than teaching the process of learning.
The only reasons I like some of the things I like is because I had teachers behind me that saw that spark and nurtured it, not because of the stuff I crammed into my head. If anything you end up passionate about stuff in spite of the curriculum instead of because of it most of the time (in my case at least)
Great point. Somewhere along the way we started teaching facts and formulas instead of showing kids that learning is fun and encouraging them to do it on their own because they enjoy it and not because they have to...
Sigh, imagine an education system like that, instead of the current pipeline for creating obedient drones, holy crap...
I think the easiest way to achieve something like that is to homeschool together with a like minded commune that has the knowledge and passion for teaching, that way the kid doesn't lose out on the social aspects of school, but it's not ideal. Wish education would get more investment before other things, it's the best long term investment for a country, invest in smarter future generations to get a better country for all