The basic assumptions behind education will need be revised, that's for certain! When exploring the idea economy concepts, you often bump onto education topics .
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Education as it is conceived right now is to provide one-size-fits-all solutions.
Being generic in the idea economy is exposing you more and more to becoming obsolete .
Rather than helping kids prepare for the future economy, schools are creating problems rather than solving them :
Their tools are rote memorisation, standardisation and indoctrination.
The very structure of school life was designed to prepare people to work in a factory ( the bell, disciplinary process, hierarchy, canteen lunch...)
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The outcome of all that is by and large, intended or not: obedient, conservative thinkers which have little self knowledge and who are very risk averse. You might say the oposite of people who probably will do well in the future idea economy.
In the discussion whether or not an education systems can adapt to prepare young persons to participate effectively in the idea economy often people mention curriculum as the culprit ...
l think changing merely the curriculum is choosing a more fancy color lipstick for the pig.
We need to explore much more fundamental questions when re-imagining education as a system :
What is school supposed to accomplish ? Is it doing that by any real life metric?
Should there be a curriculum ? If so :
Why don't kids learn about the basics of functioning in society eg personal finances , psychology, emotional self management, collaboration, how food impacts mood & health, how to cook , how inter personal relationships work, how their cognitive processes work (and how marketing manipulates these biases constantly ) ?
Should there be textbooks given they are out of date the moment they are printed and kept in use for decades .
Should there be any teachers , if so what should their role be?
Should we even have these expensive school buildings ? Could you decentralize schools? And have school distributed in the community ?
Can we use the money currently put into bricks , to develop minds by a community approach ?
Why can't teenagers work for while if they don't find school productive ?
Should school attendance be mandatory for the kids ? Why not build a system where kids want to go to instead of being kept as part-time prisoners ?
Why do kids need to sit still ? Why do they need to be in a classroom paying attention to a teacher for an hour at a time? It goes against most of what we know about human physiology
and cognitive performance !
(Why are kids being forced to take meth (= ADHD medication) for that matter ?)
Why do they get 5-6 different subjects a day, why are subjects taught in isolation?
Most of rules and regulations in schools seem to be made up for the convenience of the schools not for the benefit of the kids .
The whole situation seems closer to the Stanford prison experiment rather than the ideal of creating a place of learning and self development.
I used to think about home schooling parents as cranks, but I can understand their motivations now.
Here is a video of what seems to be a best-case scenario of home schooling.
But on the other hand, I'm sure homeschooling might not be the best option for everyone.
The whole concept of "school" needs to be experimented with and questioned : no one better than Ricardo Semler of Semco fame to do that:
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