Fixing Education

[bladevalant546]

here in the USA, would be cut military budget by 10% (as we should only need it for national defense, it seems to work for other countries pretty well) and use that to pay for college for everyone

I'd say 30% but that does not help the back end of your statement. What do you do with people who are simply not college material? More to the point, what about the type of degrees issued? We have plenty of psychology, business, philosophy, divinity (ugh - talk about useless!) and such but what is the job market for this.

There is no one thing which will fix the education system. It started to go down the shitter with this whole "self-esteem" crap in the 70's and has branched out into so many other little cesspools since.

To be honest that is an interesting observation, with notion that some people are cut out for it. That could be rectified in some degree in aptitude evaluation or something to help an individual identify what they can do. There are tons of flaws so I will not pretend to know the answers I only speak from my own perception and learn as I discover new things or ideas.

Concerning degrees, that really brings up the structure of the curriculum. I would say allow it to be somewhat customizable to a degree and possible update the degree categories since they are kind of old. What would you suggest? Job market brings up an interesting model for sure, I like to entertain the coming storm of automation and machine replacing a lot of jobs in the near future as a catalyst of education reform.

I agree there is no one thing, I also know I simplified in order to make fine points. It is such a multi-faceted issue there is no one single fix. The over medication and diagnosis of ADHD and other psychological disorders are high. It does not eliminate the emotional and neurological effects on learning. Now I am not 100% sure the solution to it, however I am leaning for more understanding and knowledge into this subject as there is observable correlation to mental states and learning ability.