Education
Our last meetup before the summer break... 😀
What is the purpose of education?
How should we order our priorities: acquiring knowledge, developing skills, assimilating values, ... ?
To what extent should the role of education be to train students for future employment?
Until which level of education should schooling be obligatory in today’s world?
What should be the most important subjects comprising universal general education?
Tailoring to individual differences vs moulding all students towards shared norms: what is the ideal balance?
What is the ideal distribution between generalization and specialization?
What qualifies a person to teach? What are the most important qualities a teacher should have?
What should the roles of teacher and student be? How should teacher and student interact?
How should students interact among themselves? Competition? Cooperation?
Is passing exams a necessary component of learning? Is it sufficient?
How can we determine the difference between "objective" education and propagandistic education?
How separate or intertwined should state and school be?
Does paying for one's (or one's children's) schooling compromise/"contaminate" that education?
What, if anything, is missing or can be improved in our current systems and cultures of education?
How is A.I. changing education?
Is education increasingly turning into the urgent task of arming humans against A.I.?
How can we best continue learning lifelong?
How can we improve our learning how to learn?
"Learning is a lifelong process; learning to learn, a lifelong task."
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