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Badly. Education processes are not built around learning, nor around meta-learning (learning how to learn new information). Education is still built largely aro
by Afforess 9y ago
Badly. Education processes are not built around learning, nor around meta-learning (learning how to learn new information). Education is still built largely around _retaining_, testing, and hoarding knowledge, without interest in discovery or the processes that created knowledge. This medieval mindset holds back much of the education system.
A larger essay on many of the problems and sources of these problems: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation-speech/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/23/ssc-gives-a-graduation-...
- samirillian 9y agoBut I don't think that was the author's intention. Uneducated would have sufficed.
- Afforess 9y agoI don't think undereducation is correct here. You could spend 50 years re-experiencing K-12 education in America and that will not earn you skills that are simply not taught there.
- samirillian 9y agoYeah, but then the premise is just a tautology: education that doesn't teach you what we consider important is a bad education. I mean, it's a lot of energy to spend thinking about a such a poorly-conceived essay. Or is it badly conceived?
- ams6110 9y agoI do think it's badly, particularly if you are not a college-bound student. If you're not going to college, you are a write-off in today's public education system.