| No! education should definitely not be on this list. Education is a red herring, and the first thing people reach for. But education is always misunderstood, and all research shows that there is vast amount of variability in things ranging from understanding to retention. For example 1) Level of nutrition impacts grade outcomes 2) Level of food consumed on that particular day impacts retention/learning 3) Level of reading of parents impacts student scores 4) Level of grand parent nutrition impacts student health and nutrtion 5) Race and discrimination impacts educational outcomes Leave aside things like bullying, student interest, intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation, learning style and so on. And this may or MAY not impact job and future outcomes either. Education is NOT an easy fix, and a tool which magically does fix this is a tool too powerful to create because if it were misused it would be an indoctrination tool beyond any other ever developed. Education must be solved with other efforts |