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gljiva | 10 months ago

I have a lot of ideas that answer your question, but there are three main reasons why *improving the quality of education* has the highest priority:

- Improves the society in general - Having a well-educated society able to think critically would make further improvements easier (tackling corruption, inefficient healthcare system and justice system as well as political discourse...) - Having an educated workforce should draw in more investors and foreign companies, making it a critical resource, especially in my country whose industry... could be better

I already have a general idea about the mechanics of a system that would make it easy for teachers to enter (parameterized) exercises, solutions, course material, tips for effective learning and other LPTs in a central database, where students can easily practice and that supports a national league "played" as exams in all schools across the country at the same time. It would need to be recorded to avoid cheating (and the recordings should be securely transferred and stored, ofc). It would include a tier system to motivate those who fall behind, on individual, class and school based levels (to support teamwork) with a reasonable rewards system ("drip" acting like irl "skins", gadgets, etc. for the best).

This would significantly boost motivation through competition and gamification, while enabling a better way of evaluating and rewarding teachers' work, which would be based on both improving the absolute amount of well taught course material and relative rank as well as popularity of entered exercises.

As a recent graduate, I currently don't have spare time nor money to invest in this project, but at some point I'll start working towards it.

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akudha|10 months ago

Not disagreeing with you, but education and intelligence without qualities like empathy, common sense etc is useless. There are lots and lots of people with advanced degrees who lack basic common sense, basic decency, empathy for fellow humans etc.

I'd rather take a kind uneducated person over a cold hearted person with 10 PhDs to his name. I have no clue about the right way to teach empathy etc though :(