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41 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 16 Feb \ on: Is the school system failing today’s students? AskSN
Step 1: School choice reforms: let parents take back control over what is taught and how.
Step 2: Abolish government schooling. State propaganda mills are incompatible with a free society.
As for my personal views about how pedagogy needs to change, the main thing is getting away from the one-size-fits-all models. Kids are amazingly diverse in their interests and aptitudes. They need teachers/tutors to help guide them along a journey of mostly independent learning.
Taking the government out of most things would probably be an immediate improvement. I cant actually think of a single thing that the government does better than the private sector.
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Sometimes, people like to be cute and say the government is better at killing, destroying, and otherwise wasting resources. However, I suspect that the private sector is better at those things, too (they just aren't incentivized to do them).
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I bet you could find examples of private companies don't it better. Find the ones with government contracts, and see how much government money they figure out how to spend. When the incentives are there, I bet they figure out how to waste massive amounts.
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That's a great point. It would be interesting to somehow compare the rate of administrative bloat in academia and medicine to that in the government itself. I don't know how to do that properly, but you might be onto something.
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It's definitely an example where the private sector is incentivized to waste. Probably look into contractors who work for the military for instance.
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That was the example I had heard someone bring up. Military contractors produce death and destruction at a fraction of the cost (while paying their workers more).