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A venture capitalist searches for the purpose of school. Here’s what he found.
- 11thEarlOfMar 11y agoThere is no question in my mind that public education in the US is broken. You get what you measure and we measure students' ability to do well at standardized tests. So we produce graduates who have spent their school years pursuing high scores on standardized tests. What we need are problem solvers. The problem space is boundless, and it evolves with very innovation and every discovery. Even for the working middle class, the level of intellectual flexibility they will need to support their family throughout a 40 year working life is not being taught in school. Students need to be challenged to identify problems and then approaches to solving them. This can not be learned by locking themselves in their bedroom memorizing facts.