Ask HN: What do you think about the current education system? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What do you think about the current education system?

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Post by sova » Tue, May 31, 2016, 7:09 PM UTC

Education! First and foremost, teachers must be paid very well, they are the stewards of knowledge...

Secondly, globalization without universal cultural appreciation has done a lot of damage to what we could consider our collective human heritage. A great dream would be to have schools that rotate around the continents, so that students/scholars/people would be exposed to the best of what other parts of the globe have to offer. It would forward-leap humanity a lot if there were simply better crosstalk between tribes.

Thirdly, the emphasis of education should not be to create/fuck/produce/consume but to actually emphasize co-reliance of beings, species, environment, nature. We cannot exist without our planet, and although we can drive fast places, most people do not realize at what a cost this simple luxury comes. Sure we can advance and make up for some damage, but not making damage in the first place is generally the best idea.

I suppose my main beef is that education is not looked upon as a topic worthy of evolution, when it is in fact the head of the inch-worm of humanity-at-large.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think about the current education system?

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Post by taurath » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 12:00 AM UTC

Its becoming more of a business than a public good. College prices are out of control - you need to get into large debt to do anything. Very little support for people who needed to work to support themselves after (or during) high school. Grants are awarded based on parents income regardless of relationship with parents (mine disowned me after I came out), unless you get a judge to legally separate yourself from them.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think about the current education system?

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Post by id122015 » Thu, Jun 02, 2016, 6:12 PM UTC

teaching should be a private affair. If you want supersmart kids, avoid sending them to the compliance system. Governmet intervention has to be minimized from now on.

Re: Ask HN: What do you think about the current education system?

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Post by kaid » Sat, Jun 04, 2016, 5:07 AM UTC

andrei_says_ wrote: post #14

Trying to make kids memorize a bunch of stuff that's unimportant to them is incredibly inefficient and the information fades fast. Having them do this at the expense of play (accelerated self-guided learning through social simulation, art and sports), at the expense of physical activity and in an insanely toxic social environment, is plain crazy. Apprenticeship, where one learns what they need to learn when they need…

"toxic social environment"

I like how you describe the social environment in schools. Going through current schooling system, will most likely result in a damaged personality. And it takes quite a lot of time and effort, to heal the damage, and to re-evaluate experience/knowledge that had been infused.