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What would happen if that kind of education was available to everyone? What would happen if world-lead expert personal tuition was available to everyone? (Obvi

What would happen if that kind of education was available to everyone? What would happen if world-lead expert personal tuition was available to everyone? (Obviously impractical, but let's pretend, as a thought experiment.) To what extent are we standing our own feet as a species by prioritising hierarchy and economic discrimination over free access to the best possible education for everyone? Especially for those who want it and can benefit from it?

sulam 5y ago
Teaching ability isn't evenly distributed, and teaching doesn't seem to scale up to even the city scale, much less national or global. I'd love for everyone to be able to take Environmental Science from Mr V, but he's only one teacher.
jkhdigital 5y ago
A start would be to (mostly) privatize primary education. Every revolution in mass production and delivery of goods and services that used to be the exclusive province of the rich was generated by free enterprise.
- verve_rat 5y ago
  Not everything is improved by adding a profit motive. Privately run prisons are not exactly renowned for reducing recidivism.
- elihu 5y ago
  That might work if you can figure out a way to fund private schools proportionally to the quality of the education they provide, but I'm skeptical there's any straightforward way to do that. Also, the portion of money that goes to shareholders is money that isn't spent on education. Governments can be inefficient, but part of the reason for the inefficiency is that they have to provide the same service to everyone and that's hard. They can't cherry-pick their customers. There may be new educational funding models we should be looking at. Maybe a lot of educational YouTube videos should be directly funded by government grants, and ad-free video hosting provided by government infrastructure if they want it.
  - leetcrew 5y ago
    private schools are generally set up as nonprofits. "shareholders" are not really a concern, though sometimes you end up with unreasonably high admin salaries.
- kazen44 5y ago
  except that education is not only a service, but also a place to learn social skills. Also, i highly doubt your claim, considering that many inventions where made by public universities funded by states around the world, or even state controlled economies with no free market.
  - jkhdigital 5y ago
    Invention != mass production and commercialization

sulam 5y ago

Teaching ability isn't evenly distributed, and teaching doesn't seem to scale up to even the city scale, much less national or global. I'd love for everyone to be able to take Environmental Science from Mr V, but he's only one teacher.

jkhdigital 5y ago

A start would be to (mostly) privatize primary education. Every revolution in mass production and delivery of goods and services that used to be the exclusive province of the rich was generated by free enterprise.

verve_rat 5y ago
Not everything is improved by adding a profit motive. Privately run prisons are not exactly renowned for reducing recidivism.
elihu 5y ago
That might work if you can figure out a way to fund private schools proportionally to the quality of the education they provide, but I'm skeptical there's any straightforward way to do that. Also, the portion of money that goes to shareholders is money that isn't spent on education. Governments can be inefficient, but part of the reason for the inefficiency is that they have to provide the same service to everyone and that's hard. They can't cherry-pick their customers. There may be new educational funding models we should be looking at. Maybe a lot of educational YouTube videos should be directly funded by government grants, and ad-free video hosting provided by government infrastructure if they want it.
- leetcrew 5y ago
  private schools are generally set up as nonprofits. "shareholders" are not really a concern, though sometimes you end up with unreasonably high admin salaries.
kazen44 5y ago
except that education is not only a service, but also a place to learn social skills. Also, i highly doubt your claim, considering that many inventions where made by public universities funded by states around the world, or even state controlled economies with no free market.
- jkhdigital 5y ago
  Invention != mass production and commercialization