[fnordpiglet]

The purpose of school could be to teach children to fill in forms without complaint until they die. In fact given our work or die structure today that’s generally a pretty useful skill. Of course, not everyone has to fill in forms to survive. There are a lot of professions that form filling isn’t mandatory and is a useless skill.

In fact, the absolute best jobs are for people who lead the form fillers in one way or another, either by creating the new ways of doing things or by setting direction. An awful lot of the best leaders I know, whether thought or organizational, have a learning disability and did very poorly in early education with its emphasis on drilling the skill of form filling without question. It wasn’t until college when they were finally asked to understand and explain their understanding did they do well.

But most people aren’t that type of person, and public education at minimum is industrialized education. It is absolutely imperative we build a machine that industrialized the production of form fillers, after all - it’s not like AI won’t be filling those forms out in a few years!