education reform

American aristocracy could learn some things from the old world. A big American founding myth is that we eliminated the aristocracy from our government, but the real American innovation is making it much easier to join the aristocracy starting as an outsider. 

Sure, great. A little closer to meritocracy, one hopes. 

But governance is complex enough that you’d ideally want to be trained from birth to do it. Programs of similar intensity to olympic training, for example. 

That was a potential upside of the previous method. You had a limited set of preselected kids who were almost certainly going to rule one day, so you could put them through the training to do so. It often worked pretty well.

Now anyone who is good at twitter can ostensibly rule without knowing anything about how to do it. 

Remember Boaty McBoatface? Our current timeline is the spiritual equivalent of running an internet poll to determine who is in charge of a nuclear reactor. Except orders of magnitudes more reckless and dangerous than that. 

 We need a better synthesis. 

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Education system in india . I feel that the education system in india needs a major overhaul. At present it’s based on consumption system ….if I get good marks then I have better future prospects ,I can make more money ,buy more and bigger house,car etc it’s like living in one’s own bubble disconnected with the impact our choices have, on the world around us ,on the environment. The focus is not on being an aware individual and hence an aware member of society . The focus is not on creating an environment where children ask questions ,or to make them wonder about the difference between needs and wants , or how the amount of waste can be reduced in each household …..
The focus could be on competing with their own self rather than the world around them ,if at all there has to be competition. E.g if I have to run a short distance race or a marathon ,isn’t it better to compete with my own previous record than someone else’s. I could just go on and on . I would love to know what people on this forum think about education system in their own countries.