Five on Nostr: It is not the grading system. It's about incentives and the harmful memes dominating ...
It is not the grading system. It's about incentives and the harmful memes dominating schools:
In today's schools the starting point is that they set up the almighty authorities to judge your understanding, and in most cases, also your overall behavior. They completely dismiss values of criticism: The trial-and-error method which is the only way to progress reliably. Don't question their ways, OR ...
Compliance is deeply baked into it which incentivizes conformity, suppressing critical thinking and creativity. Fostering creativity is very hard, it's an artform. It cannot be centrally planned as children are very different.
Facilitating peer dynamics while staying out of the way mostly, with a gentle touch of guidance. Do you think today's teachers are capable of that? Very few I would guess, and it is *despite* the environment they have to work in.
Why do you think there had not been any substantial improvement despite spending an exorbitant amount of money on different proposals? Perhaps there are fundamental problems not addressed is why. Every time I see discussions around possible changes in the school system I see how it resembles new monetary and fiscal policy discussions around the fiat system.
Tweaking this profoundly disfunctional system is totally useless, regardless of grades or lack thereof, because institutions and educators are utterly captured by static dogmas. The teachers will always be guided by incentives that enforces an authoritative mode of operation. No amount of retraining changes this.
Schools that don't have to make money directly from students or even if part of their strategy is taking money from a corrupt institution like government should be avoided therefore. Misaligned incentives just like with the advertising model, only here the government propaganda is the ad pushed.
The upshot for me is:
#Unschooling and real-life experiences is the way. Align yourself as close to reality as possible and avoid these kind of schools.
I could be wrong. But I take rational criticism seriously, so I have hope for improvement.
In today's schools the starting point is that they set up the almighty authorities to judge your understanding, and in most cases, also your overall behavior. They completely dismiss values of criticism: The trial-and-error method which is the only way to progress reliably. Don't question their ways, OR ...
Compliance is deeply baked into it which incentivizes conformity, suppressing critical thinking and creativity. Fostering creativity is very hard, it's an artform. It cannot be centrally planned as children are very different.
Facilitating peer dynamics while staying out of the way mostly, with a gentle touch of guidance. Do you think today's teachers are capable of that? Very few I would guess, and it is *despite* the environment they have to work in.
Why do you think there had not been any substantial improvement despite spending an exorbitant amount of money on different proposals? Perhaps there are fundamental problems not addressed is why. Every time I see discussions around possible changes in the school system I see how it resembles new monetary and fiscal policy discussions around the fiat system.
Tweaking this profoundly disfunctional system is totally useless, regardless of grades or lack thereof, because institutions and educators are utterly captured by static dogmas. The teachers will always be guided by incentives that enforces an authoritative mode of operation. No amount of retraining changes this.
Schools that don't have to make money directly from students or even if part of their strategy is taking money from a corrupt institution like government should be avoided therefore. Misaligned incentives just like with the advertising model, only here the government propaganda is the ad pushed.
The upshot for me is:
#Unschooling and real-life experiences is the way. Align yourself as close to reality as possible and avoid these kind of schools.
I could be wrong. But I take rational criticism seriously, so I have hope for improvement.