Education.
One of the worst things school or university can be is too easy. In this case, those that don’t give a donkey’s backside about studying and those extremely fascinated by the subjects taught end up equal on paper. The results no longer signify the abilities, skills or knowledge of the people whom they are about. The people with great memory (or persistence) look exactly like the people with great processors (who improvise amazingly well using logic and derivation). Even the people who are great all-rounders look precisely the same, when one looks at the results. With such an education, a person’s efforts, no matter how great, are equal to no effort. So why even try?
Unfortunately, this is the case in many places.
It is a similar problem to the one stated in the previous post (the video) – there are very few choices that matter in the field of education. Especially now that education has fallen far behind innovation:
Sure, this is something vaguely similar to scientology, but the point remains. The speed at which new discoveries are made is staggering. It is exacerbated by an odd publication bias. There are papers published about research done without even remotely near the professionalism in mind that would be expected from established scientists (sometimes the tests are carried out on insufficient numbers of test animals, sometimes a control group is missing, usually the conclusions are as if sucked from a straw) and there are many papers on failed experiments that don’t get published[1].
With all this malarkey going on, it is difficult to give modern education a positive assessment. Except that it is not too easy, as long as a person picks a challenge. And that is to be cherished.
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