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RikerT_USS_Lolipop t1_iwz9pnq wrote

Reply to comment by r0cket-b0i in The time it took to get to the moon. by Redvolition

I'm skeptical. we could have replaced K-16 education with online learning over 20 years ago. And it could have blown our current system out of the water. Imagine the top 1000 chemistry teachers in the nation were tasked with sculpting the perfect curriculum. They could have used automated reinforcement feedback systems to individualize curriculums to individual students.

But we didn't do that. Mostly because the people we ask whether that would be a good move to make tell us it would never work and it would be a catastophe because their jobs depend on it not happening. Office middle managers have been absolutely adamant that working from home would be terrible for productivity. Oops! turns out it's better for every single party [business, manager, worker] in every single metric we can think to measure.

Humans could already be living in a post-forced work paradise but we just won't fucking do it.

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koprulu_sector t1_iwzeajg wrote

If K-12 (not sure what 16 means) were all online, who would babysit the average working family’s kids all day? Serious question.

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RikerT_USS_Lolipop t1_iwzoptz wrote

Kids should be capable of staying home alone from age 8+.

Daycare can still exist for kids younger than that. As well as families socializing and agreeing to watch each others kids in exchanges. The families I know already work out agreements where one stay at home mom watches the family friends kids after school every day.

16 means through the end of university. Those classes can also be done online with a small handful of standardized classes. Professors could support multiple times as many students as they currently do if lectures and grading were taken care of for them.

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ThoughtSafe9928 t1_ix12amv wrote

School isn’t only about education. It’s about fostering growth through learning and exposure.

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RikerT_USS_Lolipop t1_ix1nska wrote

That would be great. Have you been in a public school in the last two decades?

Also, you can do that remotely too. Or forget the remote part completely and just focus on the fact that we could have our top .001 percentile of teachers giving lessons to everyone via video lecture and electronic practice and testing while they still go to the physical building and get babysat by the current crop of teachers.

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stupendousman t1_ix01uk4 wrote

> I'm skeptical. we could have replaced K-16 education with online learning over 20 years ago.

The government and government worker unions have monopoly control over that education. No free market action.

>Mostly because the people we ask whether that would be a good move to make tell us it would never work and it would be a catastophe because their jobs depend on it not happening.

People being government school bureaucrats and government teachers.

>Humans could already be living in a post-forced work paradise

No such thing as post work.

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