I didn’t state that..I said that “I wonder if public education is exactly what’s leading to inequalities“
And I meant intellectual inequalities. Some skills need practice(music, for example)...others need an persistence and some others need aptitude. A public school in my district right now has to choose between building a swimming pool or pay teachers more wages to build up their last drawn salary which will be their lifetime pension when they retire as a defined benefit.
All students lose because they never find out where they excel because they have to receive uniform education that is affordable to all after redistribution of resources.
Yes. That’s exactly what I mean. Example: If one has an aptitude for grade 11 in the subject of mathematics and grade 3 for the subject of history...and one is assigned to grade 5 learning 5th grade math and 5th grade history, then it’s a complete waste of education.
However(for the purpose of this thought experiment)...if one is in a class that has students from say..grade 5 to
grade 12...and can learn whatever they want..then one can entirely skip history classes and focus only on math. Everyone learns what they want...instead of learning what someone else wants.
And I meant intellectual inequalities. Some skills need practice(music, for example)...others need an persistence and some others need aptitude. A public school in my district right now has to choose between building a swimming pool or pay teachers more wages to build up their last drawn salary which will be their lifetime pension when they retire as a defined benefit.
All students lose because they never find out where they excel because they have to receive uniform education that is affordable to all after redistribution of resources.