The biggest problem with modern formal education is that all of the incentives are screwed up. There's a race toward optimizing certain "metrics" and making pro

The biggest problem with modern formal education is that all of the incentives are screwed up. There's a race toward optimizing certain "metrics" and making progress on paper to the detriment of actual learning. Sometimes I wonder whether the educational system actually helps more than it hurts. So much of "education" is not about learning, and in fact turns students away from learning. It's amazing that the system works at all really.