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139 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 8 Jan \ parent \ on: TechLead says drop learning to code and go all in on Bitcoin mostly_harmless
It is being pushed more in recent years. I know several teachers that are teaching it in both middle and high school levels. Its not required yet but that wouldn't surprise me if that happened.
I think our culture should have more focus on understanding how things work. That not only goes for programming but also mechanical engineering and what is traditionally called the trades.
I pretty much co-sign Mike Roe's pitch on this. The US has over-incentivized so called higher education instead of practical skill and knowledge. And from what we see coming out of the university system "higer-ed" is mostly left wing brain washing. Not a well rounded education. There is massive value in scholarship and classical education but we are far from that today in the universities.
Bottom line. The education system is more like a factory line and needs to become more organic and focused on discovery and knowledge. Kids are treated like units and molded like machines. I believe many of our issues today are a direct result of the government education system and how it was designed to work.
Its why my family took an alternate path with education. Home schooling and charter schools as well as a ton of augmentation to education from myself and my wife.
It's sort of a function of public money being used to fund education.
If you're using public money, you need accountability. If you need accountability, you need measurable outcomes. If you need measurable outcomes, you can sometimes kill education because it's hard to measure.
Our college measures its success by 6-year graduation rate (percent of first-time freshmen who graduate within 6 years). The problem is that this isn't a great metric for actual learning, and causes all sorts of bad incentives. Our funding is also tied to enrollment, which is another big problem.
But it's a tricky tradeoff, because without measurable outcomes, how are you going to know if public money is being well spent?
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Yep.
My opinion. Remove government education and make it entirely private. Markets solve problems much better than the state.
Education has massive value. I also worked in education for many years and I know what you are talking about. I wanted to get out of it even though I was just in IT. I never regretted going to the private / profit side of things.
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