Education System
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Woo: Educational content will change, but university badging will remain
“But I think in terms of, like, the educational content I think that will be reformed there, right? Like, I think the education system will change. But I think the badging system will not change.”
Plouffe: Loss aversion makes citizens fear reform more than broken systems
“Why is it so hard to reform the education system and healthcare system? It's really because of loss aversion theory. So even when people think something's not working, they fear the change more.”
Chase Koch: 70% to 80% of families now favor transforming American education
“After after COVID three or four years later, you look at that same data and it's 70 to 80% families are open to a completely, you know, to transform the education system because everyone now understands that it's just broken.”
Liemandt: Kids retreat to TikTok because schools offer no better options
“Kids don't want to be consumers. They don't want to scroll TikTok and play video games all day. They only do it because our current system basically doesn't give them options.”
Santos: Education traps leaders in incremental 'more, better, different' cycles
“I would say the paradigm that we are given is all about evolution more, better, different. So we're doing X and we want to do it. We want to do more of it. So we try and do more. If that doesn't work, then we do it better. If that doesn't work, we do it differ…”
Kantrowitz: Combining AI with Current Education Systems Will Cause a Disaster
“I am, I'm hopeful that we can find a way to teach better, but I think if you marry this style of learning with our current education system, you end up getting a disaster.”
Traditional education destroys personal responsibility in young people
“And young people, they are not responsible by default. School, the education system killed that.”
Birkenbuehl: US education is based on WWII economics, unprepared for AI
“The process of education is based on World War II supply chain economics, which don't exist right now. And so kids are going through education platforms that are not designed for the future. They're not designed for AI. They're not designed for social media.”
Sikri: India's poor education system drives students to study abroad
“Our education system is quite bad, which is why so many of our students are going abroad to study.”
Narayanan: AI companies should help cover education system adaptation costs
“It forces a lot of costs upon the education system, and ideally, AI companies should be bearing some of that cost.”
Penner: Major societal systems like healthcare and finance are collapsing
“We are now in this period of time when most systems in our world are literally collapsing around us, whether it be, I think, our healthcare system our social security system, how we care for the elderly our education system, our financial system, almost every …”
Masad: EdTech is a 'terrible business' for startups
“I think it's just a terrible business and it's unfortunate that it's a terrible business. You would want the free market to be building tools And software to make it so that kids all over the world are learning better and all of that. But for all sorts of stru…”
Khurma: Status quo of educating young learners will not survive shrinking attention spans
“So, the attention span of humanity as a whole is going down, is fragmenting, right? And information overload will only continue to increase. It's not going down. So, I think expecting that status quo will continue on how we train our young ones, how we train o…”
Parrish: Education innovation suffers from small upside and exponential downside risk
“Where we do like we accept failure in science, but we won't accept failure when it comes to an education system. So any, anybody who comes in and tries something else, they have this really weird equation, right? Where you have a very linear, small upside and …”
Andreessen: Education cannot be fixed; it must be rebuilt from scratch
“There is no fix. There is only one thing to do. In my opinion, there's only one thing to do. Right? Which is to build a new system. Right? And the new system has to get built from scratch. It has to get built the hard way.”
Fadell: College and modern higher education are fundamentally backwards
“I think college in our education system is entirely backwards. You sit here and you go learn something and you learn for years and years and years, and then you're told to go do.”
Roger Martin: Education System Prioritizes Knowledge Dumping Over Teaching Thinking
“I mean, I think the education System, you know, has got a fundamental assumption that the job is to, you know, unzip the top of your head and pour knowledge in rather than to teach you how to think.”
The elementary education system functions largely as organized daycare
“The education system, at least in elementary school is largely just organized daycare.”
Scott Adams Predicts Influencers Will Endorse Branded Educational Curricula
“I'm kind of expecting that influential individuals and entities will start blessing certain sets of topics.”
Oakley: Formal education systems rarely teach students how to learn effectively
“People can go through 12 to 16 years of education and never have a single course in how to learn effectively.”
Chaudhary: Education innovation requires treating adoption as reversible Type 2 decisions
“It's one of the flaws with the current education system is that, I've already talked about one, which is that, like, there's often stagnation. You can't get new ideas implemented quickly. It's all like what would you call them? Like, type one decisions, right?…”
Wendy Kopp: Educational inequity cannot be solved by classroom teaching alone
“We have here a deeply entrenched and systemic issue that cannot be solved from within classrooms alone, right? This is, no amount of teaching is going to solve this. We need incredible teachers, but we also need some of those people who understand what you und…”
Garneau: Canada's education system is playing catch-up to automation disruption
“There are professions that that could as a result of automated vehicles and intelligent transportation systems lose their jobs, and that's part of the evolution of a society. And the same applies in the manufacturing sector, where robotics is increasingly repl…”