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I've always thought it would be interesting to have a education system that focused primarily on the best outcome for the brightest students and focused the vas
by jdprgm 2y ago
I've always thought it would be interesting to have a education system that focused primarily on the best outcome for the brightest students and focused the vast majority of resources on the top 5% or so. I wonder if the total impact made (gdp, research contributions, etc) by a cohort of students this way would be higher vs spending resources to slightly bring up the average on a large number of students that never make much of themselves.
- williamcotton 2y agoThere are concrete objectives for educating a voting public in a democracy that would be entirely unserved by this proposal.
- miningape 2y agoThey're not any harder to manipulate once educated
- snowfarthing 2y agoI have seen the cynical observation, made more than once over the years, that an uneducated population is easier to manipulate, and thus it's only natural for government-run schools to get worse over time.