I didn't read it as a case of getting rid of degrees so much as adjusting the most commonly taught path of math for US schools.
Curiosity gets you very far, especially in the era of AI, but we still seem to have standard ideas about what people should learn (eg the US inexplicably is awful at teaching finance and accounting to highschoolers). I was homeschooled, and so not subjected to very much of the "standards" and yet the bled into my own education because my parents, not being intellectuals or particularly curious people, just kind of looked at what everyone else was learning and said, let's do that.
I suppose if we are thinking about school as a project that is supposed to help young people have the skills that make them useful in the world (and possibly to inspire them by giving a little taste of how big and interesting the world is), we might consider abandoning many subjects in favor of more practical ones.
Homeschooling my own kids, I can basically do anything (especially in Texas), it's interesting that I tend to follow the paths where curricula have already been developed. And it certainly takes more effort and thought to go off the beaten path.
I didn't read it as a case of getting rid of degrees so much as adjusting the most commonly taught path of math for US schools.
Curiosity gets you very far, especially in the era of AI, but we still seem to have standard ideas about what people should learn (eg the US inexplicably is awful at teaching finance and accounting to highschoolers). I was homeschooled, and so not subjected to very much of the "standards" and yet the bled into my own education because my parents, not being intellectuals or particularly curious people, just kind of looked at what everyone else was learning and said, let's do that.
I suppose if we are thinking about school as a project that is supposed to help young people have the skills that make them useful in the world (and possibly to inspire them by giving a little taste of how big and interesting the world is), we might consider abandoning many subjects in favor of more practical ones.
Homeschooling my own kids, I can basically do anything (especially in Texas), it's interesting that I tend to follow the paths where curricula have already been developed. And it certainly takes more effort and thought to go off the beaten path.