Gray: Coercive school system will collapse soon
This reference is used to annotate "I would never send my kids to school" (2017) by Piotr Wozniak
Dr Peter Gray believes that the coercive education system in the US will collapse within a decade (prophesied in 2016):
Here are four reasons why Self-Directed Education will replace forced schooling:
- coercive schools have become increasingly and evermore obviously harmful to kids
- evidence has mounted that children and adolescents can educate themselves remarkably well without coercive schooling
- Self-Directed Education is easier to pursue now than it was in the past
- changes in the economy favor the skills developed by Self-Directed Education
I would add that kids who enter school today may need to compete for jobs with artificial intelligence. By the time they leave college, assuming the concept of college survives, they will need to face machines that will have already passed the Turing Test (acc. to Ray Kurzweil's prophesy). In the meantime, we force kids to work calligraphy by hand, even if they would rather interact with a touchpad.
The understanding of the power of free learning will build up exponentially. Good memes keep spreading at an ever accelerating rate. Shortly after Gray's prophesy comes true in the US, other nations will follow suit.
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Quoted excerpts come from the following reference:
Title: Why Our Coercive System of Schooling Should Topple
Author: Dr Peter Gray
Date: 2016
Backlink: Education Reform