Large Questions
The education system is gigantic. I will continue to refine this list and link discovery writing to it as I go.
- What does someone really need to know to be a functioning citizen in society?
- What is the balance between being useful to society and being fulfilled?
- Where is the threshold between what everyone should know and specialization?
- What is the fundamental purpose of school?
- Is school primarily a day care?
- Is the value of community taught? Should it be? Can it be?
- Are people forgetting that were village people? Are communities diminishing?
- Is there a bound to positive individualism? Have we reached it?
- If parents and students are happy with their school, is that evaluation enough?
- What does the average parent really expect from their child’s school?
- Is attempting independent learning at scale actually the goal?
- Do we graduate knowing what we’re good at?
- Can you learn what you love earlier?
- What should you learn from parents vs. teachers?
- Is school a way for parents to parent less?
- Are people smarter today than they used to be?
- Can we really measure intellect?
- What are the main definition buckets of success?
- Is quality assessment of nuanced success metrics possible?
- Does anything that has actual value need to be taught or is it naturally discovered?
- If the above is true, can it be strategically discovered faster?
- Is there an example of anything more efficient the more people are involved in the system?
- Is college something to strive for today? Is it necessary?
- Could a truly meritocratic admissions process scale? Could it stay ethical?
- How do we curate the slew information available to varied learners?
- If everyone is the ultimate free thinker, who will do the menial work?
- What amount of teacher quality is inherent vs. learned?
- Are good teachers scarce?
- Is education a team sport?
- How can a school be financially self-sustainable?
- In what ways is technology helping vs. hurting us in education? Why?
- How much does our current edu system influence society versus the reverse?