It’s amazing to me how busted education is, even in college. 1) You sit in a lecture where the teacher yaps the same thing for the dozenth time. He or she probably doesn’t have the advantage of special effects or animations to convey concepts more clearly (i.e. visual modality is nerfed). The teacher might not even be good in the first place. 2) The class moves at a one-size-fits all pace 3) Hours later, maybe days later, you do the homework. This is after you forgot everything you learned in class — assuming you learned something in class. 4) You probably cheat on your homework and don’t actually learn anything. If I designed a school, every student would sit in front of a desktop (with access to the internet cut off or extremely limited), and it would run a software that gives bite-sized lessons and a couple exercises to practice it. A proctor would wander around to make sure students are focused. Nobody takes homework home. When you are done, it’s over. It just flat-out does not make sense to me why we use teaching strategies from 400 years ago as if tech hasn’t changed since then. I understand this strategy doesn’t work for every subject (especially writing), but a lot of subjects, even liberal-art ones, can be taught in this manner. Also, the computers would run Arch Linux. Because I said so.