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Comment by brightball

5 days ago

Investing in education is a trap because no matter how much money is pumped into the current model, it’s not making a difference.

We need different models and then to invest in the successes, over and over again…forever.

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thewebguyd  5 days ago

Because education alone in a vacuum won't fix the issues.

Even if the current model was working, just continuing to invest money in it while ignoring other issues like early childhood nutrition, a good and healthy home environment, environmental impacts, etc. will just continue to fail people.

Schooling alone isn't going to help the kid with a crappy home life, with poor parents who can't afford proper nutrition, and without the proper tools to develop the mindset needed to learn (because these tools were never taught by the parents, and/or they are too focused on simply surviving).

We, as a society, need to stop allowing people to be in a situation where they can't focus on education because they are too focused on working and surviving.

krainboltgreene  5 days ago

It's so hilarious to look at 10k years of education history and be like "Nah, funding doesn't make a difference."

Incredible.

  • brightball  5 days ago

    The US already spends more per student than almost any other country (5th globally) and the outcomes are getting constantly worse.

    It’s not a funding problem.

    • reverius42  4 days ago

      A lot of that funding in the US goes to pay teachers money they then use to pay for health insurance -- which in other countries is often provided by the tax base at large and not counted as an education expense.

    • Herring  4 days ago

      That's half true. You have to think about cost of living, you can't just compare across the globe like that. And especially opportunity cost. In the US, teacher pay lags behind similarly educated professionals.

      But you're right after a certain point other factors matter more than simple $ per student. Unfortunately one of those factors is teacher pay <=> teacher quality.

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