@ETBrooD
I'm glad you popped in you've had some good ideas the last time we spoke about this

I think nothing will change, schools will remain shit

I think state and local can work together yeah

I consider the education system hopeless. What must happen is that people spread information outside of the system, thus making it irrelevant.

Education must become as cheaply and easily available as sugar

Education is the cost of an internet connection

No not really unfortunately

i dont think you got what i'm saying

If that was the case maybe the situation would be better, but there's a lot of information that's behind massive paywalls for the public, but "freely" accessible to students and scholars

Even though it's not free, they get subsidized

yeah thats true. but you can get info that's not on pay walls

Yeah but none of the good stuff, because they want to maintain their monopoly on knowledge

i think it's just better education methods rather than knowledge

What makes their education methods good in any way? Most students have an extremely low retention rate into their adult years.

That statement should be "if you dont practice you forget"

It's not that simple. Teachers are trained in very poor quality education methods, like lecturing.

Yet they get paid ungodly amounts for that low quality effort.

And that by tax money, not by private donors or consumers.

Yeah i don't disagree with you there. You'll be called a racist for saying that xD

Yeah I guess in the US that'd be the case, fortunately I'm Austrian.

even private schools.. they they aint private. Anything that gets goverment funding directly isn't private

Yeah

There are even worse cases of private schools for migrant children where they don't even have to teach the national curriculum while receiving subsidization, it's messed up.

My dad used to teach at one of those.

There's really only one solution, people must create a database of general knowledge and recent scientific papers.

Like wiki, but for profit, and without any state subsidization.

They must also create a student-teacher network around that platform.

there should be multiple of them to force competition

Exactly.

The problem is, however, that public schools drive the prices of those private organizations up.

So I don't know what the solution is tbh.

it's like that in every thing tho. even in health care. food

everything that the goverment touches. kinda weird. I've spoke about this with the both of you before and you both disagreed with me. Don't know why you changed your mind

Maybe you're mistaking me for someone else? I've been against public education for years.

i think the solution would be 2 steps. stop making school attendance mandatory. and then cut all funding to every school. it will be hell for the first few years but it will get better

there are better ways. but that's just the quickest one

They'll never do any of that, it'd be a career killer for the vast majority of politicians.

Sorry guys, have you two discussed **opportunity cost**, yet?

In what context?

Looong formation time and lack of practical experience vs Homeschooling

Pardon?