I mean I like your ideas but that doesn’t really address the “how” of educating. As in how are those materials presented to people?
How do we ensure that children are actually being educated and not just glazing their eyes over as the info flows past? How do we ensure that that education is not just “God did it, now shit up.” How do we get people to be interested in learning and not just stop the second someone isn’t pointing a gun at their head?
For a lot of people, education is “we will hold a gun to your head until you pass the exam”. For a lot of people, education is seminary school, and in many circles the priests are the best educated folks around.
If I don’t send my kids to school, a nice lady with a uniform and a gun comes around, and this is ‘civilization’?
It sounds like you’re worried education will, ‘become Bible school at the point of a gun’, but where I am it already is, and these aren’t the new models I’m talking about.
I’m talking about free access and communication as the pillars of education.
I’m not worried about that specifically, although it is headed there in some states. It is just the general degradation in the quality of education and the veracity of the information presented at just about every level that really bums me out.
I agree that it shouldn’t result in anyone coming to your house to force the subject. How to present it and provide a service that people can recognize as a net benefit? Decentralized would probably be good but it cannot be denied, as you said, that apprenticeships and hands on learning are very effective. Yet, they are very difficult to decentralize as they require a lot of equipment at each location.
Virtual reality with haptic feedback would be pretty close, if we can get it to work in an open source meshnet sort of way.
I mean I like your ideas but that doesn’t really address the “how” of educating. As in how are those materials presented to people?
How do we ensure that children are actually being educated and not just glazing their eyes over as the info flows past? How do we ensure that that education is not just “God did it, now shit up.” How do we get people to be interested in learning and not just stop the second someone isn’t pointing a gun at their head?
I guess we’ll have to learn how to do that.
For a lot of people, education is “we will hold a gun to your head until you pass the exam”. For a lot of people, education is seminary school, and in many circles the priests are the best educated folks around.
If I don’t send my kids to school, a nice lady with a uniform and a gun comes around, and this is ‘civilization’?
It sounds like you’re worried education will, ‘become Bible school at the point of a gun’, but where I am it already is, and these aren’t the new models I’m talking about.
I’m talking about free access and communication as the pillars of education.
I’m not worried about that specifically, although it is headed there in some states. It is just the general degradation in the quality of education and the veracity of the information presented at just about every level that really bums me out.
I agree that it shouldn’t result in anyone coming to your house to force the subject. How to present it and provide a service that people can recognize as a net benefit? Decentralized would probably be good but it cannot be denied, as you said, that apprenticeships and hands on learning are very effective. Yet, they are very difficult to decentralize as they require a lot of equipment at each location.
Virtual reality with haptic feedback would be pretty close, if we can get it to work in an open source meshnet sort of way.