If you really want to fix it, then first you have to find the root cause. Most people, especially folks in the education space and folks in charge know nothing about the dark history of this system worldwide (which I'll be writing about as a part of this series).
As far as the time/resources question go, it depends on how willing one is to go to create a replacement. It's actually relatively easy with so many experiments already concluded by several folks like Sugata Mitra and with the available history of traditional pedagogies.
If one is unwilling to go for a fix, then the alternative is to tweak the framework and go with an end point in mind (like a secondary certificate), but tweak pretty much everything to arrive at that goal. From what I've seen, you can literally get rid of classrooms, age segregation, common curricula and standardized testing altogether and still achieve far better results than current schools do (and I'm not limiting it to academics).
As far as we being products of the same system, it shows in our nature. We by our nature are not innovators and thinkers like our ancestors were who built some of the most tremendous knowledge systems. the most vast literature in almost every subject known to man including science, maths, arts, engineering, linguistics, grammar, medicine, astronomy and spirituality etc which are available to us. What I've found is almost everyone who is a grand success is despite the system rather than due to it (which explains why so many smart people simply want to dropout and do).
Also, the working of the system is measured purely by quantitative methods which seldom provides any value when it comes to assessing and developing human talent. A single talented traditional music teacher for example does far better in providing education and potential livelihood to a student, than the entire school put together which is serious food for thought. It should be enough to push us to 'make time and resources'.
If there were any valuable lessons or skills that I've learnt in life, they've always been outside the classroom without exception, and one doesn't really need to go to the unscientific construct called "school" for that anyway. Its very structure is designed to crush and kill talent as its original goal anyway and even schools with open thinking don't really get that part of how and why it's happening.
The institutions of higher education which are simply a hierarchy of this are only marginally better and aren't producing anything usable for either the industry and terms of workers or entrepreneurs who would produce wealth and in turn potentially produce more jobs. It's why most of the most admirable companies in the world stopped using degrees for hiring several years back.
Do we have the time or resources to uproot a supposedly working operating system(you and I are products of the same system?
If you really want to fix it, then first you have to find the root cause. Most people, especially folks in the education space and folks in charge know nothing about the dark history of this system worldwide (which I'll be writing about as a part of this series).
As far as the time/resources question go, it depends on how willing one is to go to create a replacement. It's actually relatively easy with so many experiments already concluded by several folks like Sugata Mitra and with the available history of traditional pedagogies.
If one is unwilling to go for a fix, then the alternative is to tweak the framework and go with an end point in mind (like a secondary certificate), but tweak pretty much everything to arrive at that goal. From what I've seen, you can literally get rid of classrooms, age segregation, common curricula and standardized testing altogether and still achieve far better results than current schools do (and I'm not limiting it to academics).
As far as we being products of the same system, it shows in our nature. We by our nature are not innovators and thinkers like our ancestors were who built some of the most tremendous knowledge systems. the most vast literature in almost every subject known to man including science, maths, arts, engineering, linguistics, grammar, medicine, astronomy and spirituality etc which are available to us. What I've found is almost everyone who is a grand success is despite the system rather than due to it (which explains why so many smart people simply want to dropout and do).
Also, the working of the system is measured purely by quantitative methods which seldom provides any value when it comes to assessing and developing human talent. A single talented traditional music teacher for example does far better in providing education and potential livelihood to a student, than the entire school put together which is serious food for thought. It should be enough to push us to 'make time and resources'.
If there were any valuable lessons or skills that I've learnt in life, they've always been outside the classroom without exception, and one doesn't really need to go to the unscientific construct called "school" for that anyway. Its very structure is designed to crush and kill talent as its original goal anyway and even schools with open thinking don't really get that part of how and why it's happening.
The institutions of higher education which are simply a hierarchy of this are only marginally better and aren't producing anything usable for either the industry and terms of workers or entrepreneurs who would produce wealth and in turn potentially produce more jobs. It's why most of the most admirable companies in the world stopped using degrees for hiring several years back.