You're being overwhelmingly optimistic. History shows that an education model to be surprisingly resilient and will only collapse if there as seismic shifts in its supporting culture/state/nation.
This is readily apparent in East Asia, where the Chinese system of schooling, civil examinations and the mandarin official/gentry system only began to fracture when exposed to Western schools of thought, particularly the latter's advantages in the sciences.
I predict the current system will only even begin to fracture when it is no longer able to perform its primary function on a massive scale - i.e. to enable people who graduate from college to obtain a job.
I believe that we are presently seeing the results of a system which has (by and large) begun to fail on that massive scale. The main cause of this present recession have been IMHO due to the replacement of human labor with technology. Those jobs aren't coming back, and the only way for those people to get employed again is for someone to gain applicable skills--such as technology.
I was being VERY optimistic. The system I just described would be roughly modelling the free market system, which education is not. Wholesale governmental support of the present system will make it much more "resilient" than it should be.
The good news is that the internet works in our favor--we already have alternative tools which mitigate the lack of good schools. I'm talking about Khan Academy and MIT OpenCourseWare, of course.
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You're being overwhelmingly optimistic. History shows that an education model to be surprisingly resilient and will only collapse if there as seismic shifts in its supporting culture/state/nation.
This is readily apparent in East Asia, where the Chinese system of schooling, civil examinations and the mandarin official/gentry system only began to fracture when exposed to Western schools of thought, particularly the latter's advantages in the sciences.
I predict the current system will only even begin to fracture when it is no longer able to perform its primary function on a massive scale - i.e. to enable people who graduate from college to obtain a job.
I believe that we are presently seeing the results of a system which has (by and large) begun to fail on that massive scale. The main cause of this present recession have been IMHO due to the replacement of human labor with technology. Those jobs aren't coming back, and the only way for those people to get employed again is for someone to gain applicable skills--such as technology.
I was being VERY optimistic. The system I just described would be roughly modelling the free market system, which education is not. Wholesale governmental support of the present system will make it much more "resilient" than it should be.
The good news is that the internet works in our favor--we already have alternative tools which mitigate the lack of good schools. I'm talking about Khan Academy and MIT OpenCourseWare, of course.