What if our education system is creating lost productivity, and amplifying societal issues. The goal of education is to incentivize skill and development, but we judge the progress in a binary pass or fail, as if each student is homogenous and should develop skills and understanding at same rate using the same method.
In essence, we label the students as ‘failure’ or ‘degrade’ the students who do not move with the system (built >100 years ago) - completely ignoring the individual strengths.
The impact - we amplify the opportunties and worth of those who align with the structure, and slowly but surely destroy the self worth and an opportunity to be sucessful for those who dont. For the students at the extreme of this sytem, it creates a spiral of unemployment, financial vulnerability, crime, and behavioral issues.\n\nIf we simply reframed it as a fluid system with checks of “there”, and “not there yet” instead of a filter based approach, perhaps we would better align the incentives of development without major overhaul of the system."
