I do not know if you have read Gatto or not based on this. He points out that the system has no memory of its origin and that changes occur just like you describe with the result of deepening the problem. The last major school reform was GW Bush’s No Child Left Behind....if that tells you anything about who “fixes” the system.
No Child Left Behind was a stupid fix, but that doesn’t mean it was an ill intentioned fix.
I have actually just found the online text of “The Underground History of Education,” and started reading it, but so far am unimpressed and unlikely to finish it. I’m noticing a lot of cherrypicking to support his position, and he doesn’t give sources for his assertions at all (I went to the table of contents to look for a bibliography, and couldn’t find one, so I did a further search to see if this is the case in the print version and confirmed that the book contains no citations.)
I share his opinion that our current educational system is not well designed to get the best out of its students, but if I wanted to introduce someone to a writer who could effectively explain that point, I don’t think I’d recommend him. I’d probably recommend some of Eliezer’s essays, or maybe Paul Graham’s.
I do not know if you have read Gatto or not based on this. He points out that the system has no memory of its origin and that changes occur just like you describe with the result of deepening the problem. The last major school reform was GW Bush’s No Child Left Behind....if that tells you anything about who “fixes” the system.
No Child Left Behind was a stupid fix, but that doesn’t mean it was an ill intentioned fix.
I have actually just found the online text of “The Underground History of Education,” and started reading it, but so far am unimpressed and unlikely to finish it. I’m noticing a lot of cherrypicking to support his position, and he doesn’t give sources for his assertions at all (I went to the table of contents to look for a bibliography, and couldn’t find one, so I did a further search to see if this is the case in the print version and confirmed that the book contains no citations.)
I share his opinion that our current educational system is not well designed to get the best out of its students, but if I wanted to introduce someone to a writer who could effectively explain that point, I don’t think I’d recommend him. I’d probably recommend some of Eliezer’s essays, or maybe Paul Graham’s.