I have said repeatedly: Why should students do PhDs? For the vast majority of people a PhD is of absolutely zero value. Why should students go to college/uni

I have said repeatedly: Why should students do PhDs? For the vast majority of people a PhD is of absolutely zero value. Why should students go to college/university? For the vast majority of people a degree is of absolutely zero value. Why should students finish High School? For the vast majority of people a High School diploma is of absolutely zero value. School is all about assessment, but life is about abilities and skills. Why are we teaching math that's targeted at the pinnacle of calculus, when absolutely no one uses calculus outside of a very, very small percentage of people in highly technical, extremely uncommon professions or jobs? It's the underlying abilities and skills that these kids, and then young adults, need. (Actually, there's much more needed if you want to go on to programming, engineering, physics, etc, and I haven't forgotten that. But what percentage of people do those? What percentage want to do those?) But they don't get to develop or exercise those abilities and skills. And the reason is that these can't be assessed en masse - which is required for schools. So how can we develop these skills and abilities in the students, and then make sure that they have the evidence of them with which to go into the job market? Employers really no longer care about diplomas, degrees and qualifications, because they no longer trust them. Instead, every employer that I know of now asks for those out of habit, but administer their own aptitude tests. Remember, though, that we can't let potential employers drive education, because the students don't yet know what they might want to do, because they don't know what's possible. It's hard, and experiments such as those reported here are tremendously valuable and interesting. I just hope we see them bear fruit, in the form of balanced, valuable, educated young adults.