I think a lot of what current traditional schools do is merely an echo or inertial continuance of practices that at best made sense hundreds of years ago. They

I think a lot of what current traditional schools do is merely an echo or inertial continuance of practices that at best made sense hundreds of years ago. They developed in a time where the technology landscape was more limited, there were fewer alternative methods, and the economic competitive context was less global and more local. Now we have the technology to record the best video/audio lectures on a given subject once and mass distribute them for free. We can create software that automatically grades massive amounts of test and homework submissions. We can push essay submissions into systems that automatically check for potential plagiarism against large databases of previously written papers. Instead of dead paper resumes we can have online portfolios of actual work products and videos showing people directly exercising particular skills in real time, in order to convey legitimacy and make purported abilities tangible. With Google we can quickly lookup trivial facts on the go as needed rather than having to memorize them. All of the above frees up humans to spend more time learning fundamental ideas and concentrating on their own health, wealth and happiness and less on mindlessly carrying out superficial traditions, doing makework or bowing to arbitrary external authority. We can be more real. And do more, faster and better.