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Maybe you have a better vision for education, but so do a lot of other people. And yet edtech startups crash and burn over and over and over. There’s something
by shermantanktop 3y ago
Maybe you have a better vision for education, but so do a lot of other people. And yet edtech startups crash and burn over and over and over.
There’s something intractable about solving problems that are so deeply entangled in society and culture, and yet everyone seems to have a first-thought idea that seems appealing.
- Solvency 3y agoWhat I'm suggesting doesn't require a startup, just better media assets for teachers to be effective rather than JUST massive textbooks and antiquated approaches to curriculums.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoUnfortunately, someone has to produce those better media assets. And the people who can do a good job of that mostly don't work for free. So it may not require a startup, but it does require something - some company, or nonprofit, or government agency.
- shermantanktop 3y agoRight, understand you weren't suggesting a complete overhaul of all of education. But even a textbook change is a huge change. Right now we have a Florida state law resulting in dictionaries getting pulled from school libraries. Texas schoolboards effectively make textbook and curriculum decisions for the rest of the US. Education is a political football in the US, and always has been, but especially now. In other parts of the world, it varies - but you can bet that Turkish textbooks don't cover what happened in 1915 in the same way that a Greek textbook might. And so the status quo is very difficult to change.