Education is a two sided problem split between imparting knowledge and consuming it. The teacher v.s. the student. Traditionally, without the advent of the internet we were limited to relying on educators to impart knowledge to learner. As a result the ‘one teacher, many student’ model of education has become ever so engraved in society. It’s not wrong in anyway, but simply because of the way we frame this problem we inhibit our creativity when trying to solve self-education for the 21st century.
So, let’s reframe this problem by ignoring the teachers, that’s key for several reasons: The global distribution of knowledge is sparse, you have good teachers, bad teacher, elite universities and sub-par ones. Secondly, by thinking of students as groups we ignore the needs of the individual student; everyone has unique and optimal learning styles.
Now, if we were to imaging an ideal education system, it would be something along the lines of this:
A personalized learning experience tailored to the individual student with the best available knowledge that maximizes for a well-rounded perspective of the subject.
Thoughts?
- Piece of writing as a part of my work at alcamy.org. Go check it out, we're trying to build something that does this there...
