A [censored] Approach to Education

An Approach to Education

I invite the LW community to help me identify where my thinking about education is wrong here...

I disagree with the applicability of the criticisms of others when they said that the post is vague. The post represents a way of thinking about the problem, and so it is possible to say where the thinking went wrong and where it didn't. Vagueness is something that is more of a sin for a proposed solution.

So here is where I think the thinking went wrong:

While it is necessary to continue to improve our educational systems for youths

Not necessarily. Maybe the best thing to do is have is children be home schooled from ages 6-12, followed twenty to forty yeas of academia. It might be that spending money on children's education isn't efficient for meeting any goals.

for it is adults who make the decisions

Not most of them. Their biggest impact is influencing children.

Why is it difficult? It challenges our world views, which can be a very scary thing

It's also difficult because math is hard.

How can we create an environment that fosters a pull model of education?

Make them pay dearly for it, because people value things they spent money on! I say this because it is the opposite of what you concluded based on different, valid considerations, but there are a lot of human biases that interact to make certain approaches more likely to succeed even though those approaches also have their own drawbacks.

Once these...will crystallize...Once their...Then they will

Conjunctions. The more steps there are, the more steps for people to choose other than as you would have them choose, or for events to otherwise not work out.

The very people who most need education have very little money to devote to it

Education can be great for individuals without being good for a society. To the extent what is achieved is signaling one's relative worth, society loses from educational investment, even as individuals gain from it and those who don't have it could most use it.