Education: the future and the past.

The modern schooling system is an international shame, proof of the irrationality of the modern world.

They shouldn’t teach you how to think, but help you discover who you are and how you think.

They shouldn’t teach you anything forcefully, but rather teach you how to learn and motivate independent intellectual activity.

Learn how to learn, not how to get better grades.

They shouldn’t punish failure, but rather teach you how to manage it. They should teach you how to learn to conquer yourself and exist healthily and productively, not just spit out thousands of useless facts that no person on earth is interested in.

Ideas, not facts.

Now, complaning gets us nowhere. Therefore, I’ll now give a sketch of what a better system would be; a system that actually inputs people and outputs better people and not mere automata.

If I were to design a schooling system it would have only four activities:

1. Physical education class: Nature activities, sports, teachings about general health and how to maximize your performance as a human.

   Basically, here you would get taught how to master physical activity and bodily health.

2. Mathematics and science class: Teaches you about the passion for the study of nature, useful facts for the understanding of one’s bodily systems, basic physics, biology, mathematics (mostly math and mathematical reasoning).

   Now, isn’t math/science a part of the traditional system? No, for they are not properly taguht. Here, the emphasis would be in truly understanding mathematical thinking for the sake of problem solving and understanding nature objectively, a matter of fundamental importance to understand how the world works.

3. Personal education/emotional intelligence activities: Learning how to improve oneself, how to think critically, manage risk and failure, develop character, group debating activities, charisma, attitude toward life and motivation.

   The point behind this one would be to master the mind, in that you would learn how to control emotions and use the mind in your favour.

4. Business/economics class: Teaching the basics about the economic structure of the world, how to make money, about the future of human development, how to produce creatively, personal finance and how to subsist and thrive financially doing what you love.

   This last area would focus on teaching how to produce and fit into the world in a way that both makes you money, makes others money and fulfills you.

In conclusion, the educational system’s greatest fault is that it prepares people to and induces values in them completely backwards to what will be beneficial for their self-development and creation of experience.

It teaches time-wasting, not time-management, it teaches work is boring and not done for you, not that it is the vessel of the transmutation of idea into experience.

It teaches dissociation of productive time with recreation, instead of teaching how to accomplish the merging of recreational passions with productive work.

It inspires you to think that learning and producing are two disjoint activities, not that true knowledge is acquired through the failed creation and then successful re-creation of experience. It teaches that the ideal amount of productivity is the bare minimum, instead of teaching how to surpass one’s limits.

This list could go on and on, simply due to the fact that it is impossible to cease one’s critique of a system’s whose sole result is the destruction of people and the creation of cogs in a mechanism fuelled by fear, anxiety and falsehood.

Though, of course, the system is not a net negative. It is still better to give people some direction, rather than leave them wandering aimlessly, lost.

Once a great source of progress and development. Now, an obsolete machine, an obsoletion from which all its flaws stem.

Luckily, as we all probably know, times are changing, and changing fast. AI, digital education, automation of boring tasks, etc. The future is already upon us, we just haven’t fully made the shift yet.

The sands of time are running low for traditional “education“.

There is hope, indeed.

I believe the next few decades will be pivotal and the shift toward a truly practical and effective system will take place, whether the ones running the systems want it or not.

Why? Well, basically, as the quality and cheapness of online education goes up, more and more people will be withdrawn from the traditional system, until it is no longer profitable. It will collapse under its own weight.

And thus, the newer, practical, effective systems will rise. And they WILL HAVE TO be useful and valuable. They will have to touch upon the four pillars mentioned above, since those are the important ones for practical use.

As the economy of digital education shrinks in scale, it will self-optimize until only useful bits remain and there is no room for useless classes, or time-wasting. That is only possible when universities have the monopoly of formal education.

We currently find ourselves in one of the most unique times in history; those who have understood that early on will benefit massively.

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