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- Education does not need more money thrown at it. We spend the 5th most per student globally. It needs a redesign and an assessment of what exactly its goals are.
- At the moment, it seems as if it were designed around these goals:
- -Keeping kids occupied with busy-work
- -Learning a few necessary skills and many assorted factoids
- -A 4 year metric to help employers quickly weed out undesirables:
- "unintelligent" people
- unconventional people, creative thinkers, and people who don't submit well to authority
- And to identify these qualities:
- -Complacency, submissiveness, obedience
- -Willingness to do tedious, repetitive, meaningless work; to do that work well; and to complete it on time, even if you don't like it
- Year amounts denote totals. Ideally, classes should be sliced up to be semester, or maybe even quarter, classes instead of full year classes and interspersed. This would enhance retention.
- Mandatory courses:
- -Remove PE? Shorten?
- -Remove English
- -Grammar and writing skills should still be taught in one of the classes or a new class not listed
- -Remove language
- -Remove math higher than algebra (except as requirements for other courses)
- -Remove geometry
- -History:
- -Cut down on ancient history: gloss over it briefly
- -No memorizing of details like dates and places
- -Science:
- -Needs a redesign: there's too much rote memorization and too many niche topics that students will simply forget and relearn in college if they really need to know them
- -Ex: Instead of memorizing all the parts of the cell, aim for a general understanding
- -Teach the scientific method
- -Add economics: 1-2 years
- -Add government: 1 year
- -Add personal finance: 1 year
- -Buying a house/Mortage payments
- -Retirement funds and predatory practices
- -Buying a car and predatory practices
- -Paying taxes
- -etc.
- -Add reasoning/rhetoric: 2-3 years, Teaches about:
- -Logic:
- -Premises, Conclusions, Arguments
- -Cognitive dissonance
- -Beliefs as part of identity
- -Attacking the belief becomes attacking the person
- https://news.usc.edu/114481/which-brain-networks-respond-when-someone-sticks-to-a-belief/
- -Cognitive biases
- -Confirmation bias
- -Backfire effect
- -Logical fallacies
- -Ad hominem
- -Strawman
- -Fallacy fallacy
- -etc.
- -Role of tribalism in ethics and reasoning and how it evolved
- -Constructing rational arguments
- -Find the core premise of the other side's argument
- -Find inconsistencies in their reasoning (ex: under that logic)
- -The socratic method
- -Common scams and bullshit
- -Multilevel marketing pyramid schemes
- -Homeopathic and other alternative medicine
- -"Natural" foods
- -Car salesman's book of tricks
- -Fake online reviews
- -The placebo effect
- -What open-mindedness looks like
- -Avoid reading things that you already agree with, and instead read opposing opinions more.
- -Emotional reasoning and statements devoid of content (ex: new age drivel)
- -Identify the assumptions in a statement
- -How to identify if a source is reliable
- -How to identify bias and spin in a source
- -Identifying and avoiding echo-chambers
- -The filter bubble
- -Disinformation on the internet
- -What makes a valid scientific study
- -Vaccines/autism study
- -Problems with media reporting of science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw
- -Grants, incentives, and replication:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42QuXLucH3Q
- -How to disagree (many seem unable to)
- -The urge to have an opinion on matters one knows nothing about (eg: adhering to a political party)
- -Evaluating motives
- -Conspiracy theories
- -Who benefits from this?
- General changes:
- -School will start at 9:30 and end at 3:30 (Teenagers are biologically predisposed to going to bed later and waking up later):
- -Sports will not be funded using public money
- -Minimal or no homework
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