Overall, an interesting vision of future education. The elimination of grades to focus on developing competency is a needed move; this is, for example, the philosophy of Khan Academy. The conflation of education and ranking is quite well entrenched in many societies, but it’s not the best way to accomplish either goal. The use of new technology is also a plus, though it is presented in a somewhat pedestrian way.
It suffers in a few places, such as requiring four languages while students never read books. As gwern mentions, the curriculum seems to neglect computer programming. “Fewer equations and more integrated problems” seems confused to me; “integrated problems” still require the use of equations. I suspect that the author does not have a significant background in the sciences (his Google+ profile states that he works in computer graphics and video production). I would also add economics and cognitive science to the subject list explicitly (essentially LessWrongifying it).
In summary, I think the broad architecture presented is sound, but the details could use some work.
Overall, an interesting vision of future education. The elimination of grades to focus on developing competency is a needed move; this is, for example, the philosophy of Khan Academy. The conflation of education and ranking is quite well entrenched in many societies, but it’s not the best way to accomplish either goal. The use of new technology is also a plus, though it is presented in a somewhat pedestrian way.
It suffers in a few places, such as requiring four languages while students never read books. As gwern mentions, the curriculum seems to neglect computer programming. “Fewer equations and more integrated problems” seems confused to me; “integrated problems” still require the use of equations. I suspect that the author does not have a significant background in the sciences (his Google+ profile states that he works in computer graphics and video production). I would also add economics and cognitive science to the subject list explicitly (essentially LessWrongifying it).
In summary, I think the broad architecture presented is sound, but the details could use some work.