alt Hacker NewsInvesting in education is a trap because no matter how much money is pumped into the current model, it’s not making a difference.
We need different models and then to invest in the successes, over and over again…forever.
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krainboltgreene • today at 1:50 AM
It's so hilarious to look at 10k years of education history and be like "Nah, funding doesn't make a difference."
Incredible.
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Because education alone in a vacuum won't fix the issues.
Even if the current model was working, just continuing to invest money in it while ignoring other issues like early childhood nutrition, a good and healthy home environment, environmental impacts, etc. will just continue to fail people.
Schooling alone isn't going to help the kid with a crappy home life, with poor parents who can't afford proper nutrition, and without the proper tools to develop the mindset needed to learn (because these tools were never taught by the parents, and/or they are too focused on simply surviving).
We, as a society, need to stop allowing people to be in a situation where they can't focus on education because they are too focused on working and surviving.