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Latta: Education's core problem is that institutions never build for students
“I think the biggest problem in education is very simple. It's that when you look at all the different players that make up education for young people, when you look at Pearson, when you look at schools, when you look at school administrators, when you look at …”
Latta proposes splitting schooling into a four-hour core and student-directed pursuits
“I think my proposal is two systems. I propose one system that's like normal public school that where you have a high floor, low ceiling, everybody learns to read and write, but it's hard to go off the beaten path, but that only takes like four hours a day or s…”
Traditional Education Outcomes Reflect Average Compromises Across Conflicting Stakeholders
“The thing that's so hard about education is that it has a million stakeholders. Literally everyone from parents to communities to literally real estate agents have a huge stake in education. And what that means is we end up with a system that's almost like the…”
Latta: Coding teaches youth that both digital and physical systems are malleable
“When you learn to code, you begin to realize that all these digital systems are malleable. And if you realize that the digital systems around us are malleable, you realize that the physical systems are too.”
Modern Education's Challenge Has Shifted From Information Access to Motivation
“So much of what we think of as public education today is built to solve an access problem. How do we simply get access to all this different knowledge in front of as many people as possible? Where I think the new challenge of education is one of motivation.”
Latta: Coders earn double or triple a public school teacher's salary
“If you know how to code, you have the choice between being a public school teacher or making double or sometimes triple your salary.”
Latta: Educational programs must feel editable so students act like owners
“We try and make Hack Club as an organization and as a set of programs feel very editable. If you're a teenager in Hack Club and you're thinking, I don't like this thing Hack Club is doing, or I don't like this experience I'm going through. It should feel like …”