3 ms·

You seem to be working from an incomplete model of the world. I can tell you for certain that small private schools with engaging lessons still have children wh

You seem to be working from an incomplete model of the world. I can tell you for certain that small private schools with engaging lessons still have children who'd prefer to be on their phone. But I also went to school multiple decades ago and we weren't sitting quietly listening to the teacher all day, or working off typewritten transparencies...

mschuster91 3y ago
I'm coming from the political side: all metrics indicate that quality of school has gone downhill or stagnated among most Western countries (e.g. PISA study or the #/% of students leaving school without a degree), businesses in Germany (legitimately IMHO) claim the same, investment into schools has gone down as well (particularly in the USA, but also in Germany - the usually dilapidated state of toilets is a meme on its own). Education scientists regularly come forward with appeals to improve the situation. On top of that, employment opportunities for low qualified people have been shrinking for decades as these jobs either went to China, to automation or need better qualification (half of the work of an household electrician these days is planning smart home stuff). Meanwhile, Asian countries continue to excel... but at the cost of hundreds of thousands of broken young souls, of families going into absurd debt, and of suicide. At the same time, Western politicians rarely seem to listen to the scientists and instead prefer to do nothing at all - this is extremely dangerous for the future of our economies. To me, the most important thing is to give schools and teachers the resources (staff, funding, proper and maintained buildings) they need to give every single child the best education they can without falling victim to the horrors of Asian education culture, because otherwise our economy is getting fucked.

3 ms·

You seem to be working from an incomplete model of the world. I can tell you for certain that small private schools with engaging lessons still have children wh

by lazyasciiart 3y ago

mschuster91 3y ago
I'm coming from the political side: all metrics indicate that quality of school has gone downhill or stagnated among most Western countries (e.g. PISA study or the #/% of students leaving school without a degree), businesses in Germany (legitimately IMHO) claim the same, investment into schools has gone down as well (particularly in the USA, but also in Germany - the usually dilapidated state of toilets is a meme on its own). Education scientists regularly come forward with appeals to improve the situation. On top of that, employment opportunities for low qualified people have been shrinking for decades as these jobs either went to China, to automation or need better qualification (half of the work of an household electrician these days is planning smart home stuff). Meanwhile, Asian countries continue to excel... but at the cost of hundreds of thousands of broken young souls, of families going into absurd debt, and of suicide. At the same time, Western politicians rarely seem to listen to the scientists and instead prefer to do nothing at all - this is extremely dangerous for the future of our economies. To me, the most important thing is to give schools and teachers the resources (staff, funding, proper and maintained buildings) they need to give every single child the best education they can without falling victim to the horrors of Asian education culture, because otherwise our economy is getting fucked.