Five on Nostr: If you think focusing on tests, grades or mechanical emulation of teachers is a good ...

If you think focusing on tests, grades or mechanical emulation of teachers is a good idea, you are dismissing the most important part of not just learning but what it is like to be human:
Creativity.

quoting nevent1q…lxe9

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.

People are the universal explainers of the world, and with knowledge they are capable of unbounded progress.
That is if we understand that good philosophy is vital to life: One that promotes criticism and rejects authorities, thereby correcting errors we make, while also remaining optimistic about the future because we have good reason to do so.
Pessimism is for losers and fiat leeches.

Our Creation of truly new and unique knowledge is what makes us human and is what brought us where we are now. Freedom tech is the new paradigm that will allow us to find signal in the noise and provide us with the means to thrive.

Defeat the anti-rational memes in your mind, adopt the new ways and live a meaningful life worth remembering.