What if we completely dumped the concept of "school" and replaced it with something that emphasized independence and creativity, and instead of teaching various subjects, or "giving kids all the tools they need to operate the world" it gave kids the ability think so creatively, and make, accomplish, or learn anything from scratch, that they really COULD operate the world. Along they way they would teach themselves the basics like reading, math, etc... but instead of slowly filling kids heads with temporary information, we made them geniuses, who quickly received any information, acted to accomplish any task in their own creative manner, and were independent enough not to take garbage from the media, glovernment, nay-sayers (negative people), and smart and disciplined enough not to waste all their time on video games, drugs, tv, etc... They would literally not sit for any lecture at all, and only work to accomplish a single task.
Along the way they would run into road blocks, where they may have to learn a new language, mathematics, piano, or some new skill, or make a certain amount of money to gain a resource, all to accomplish one single task.
The only supervision they would receive was singled out organizational supervision, or help on how to find or learn different resources to continue working to accomplish X task at the end of a term. Instead of classes, subjects, and grades, etc... they could have a universal goal for each grade level, and by the end of the year, or time period they would have to somehow accomplish that goal. They could start out with easy goals to reach in early levels, but the higher and higher you get, the more long term the goal, and the less resources the system would directly provide you to accomplish it, making you do more and more work on your own, and having more and more discipline to work up to each level.
To actually MOTIVATE the "students" as they're currently called, those who REACH that goal are actually REWARDED. Yes, REWARDED. Is that crazy? No. In real life, when we accomplish real life goals we are REWARDED in some way or another. In school they train us to think that failure to perform is not rewarded but only punished, which demotivates kids not to try their best. In real life, our lack of performance do cause unwanted "punishments" but with progress we also receive REWARDS. The system I came up with would both not let you progress to the next level if you don't meet standards, but also somehow REWARD you if you do.
I don't mean they get 1000 dollars cash prize, but something that could help them better their abilities, something they can be happy about, and still perform for the purpose of performing better and better.
In the end, you'd end up with a bunch of super humans doing exactly what they want to do in the world, smart enough not to accept garbage presented without thoroughly looking into what is being handed them, and tough enough not to wander in dark places.
A REAL perfect system is a system that gets everyone exactly what they need, where they are all perfectly capable, motivated, and moving to accomplish what they need, and it doesn't do it by force, punishment, or an unrealistic and unreasonably strict environment.
And that's my idea. Hooray.
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