[FRIAM] What do we do Now?

[Marcus Daniels]

From a population perspective, inequality in education isn’t necessarily bad if what is really happening is that entropy of skill sets is maximized.  (For one thing, it presumes that there are experts in every crevice and nuance of expertise, and that those individuals would rather be teachers than perform their craft.)   One way this could be manifest is in a thriving service economy.   If someone can make a business selling $10 cups of ice cream, doing custom metalworking for old cars, or designing plasma injectors, or all of these at various times, that is a good thing.  One can have many depth-first experiences with self-directed learning (and skill development) or an extended experiences with a broader set of topics.   What I think the liberal arts enthusiasts fail to recognize is that integrating disparate concepts leads to a desire to fill in the holes, and more self-directed learning.   This sort of thing is sustainable if the work environment is right.  Coming up with $60k a year for good liberal arts school, not so much.   Motivation has a role in intelligence.  If motivation isn’t nurtured, people won’t even think to try.   There needs to be more paths to ratchet ones way into the economy and to get appropriate kinds of education and experiences.

To the rural conservative, their world entertains a lower number of low energy degenerate states.   Sure, education may make more low-ish energy states evident, but in a spatially isolated region with a limited set of consumers, there won’t be (or seem to be) any practical way to exercise unusual sorts of economic activity.   Their business isn’t on a busy city street with hundreds of people walking by every hour.   However, one could argue that this could be the case in the world of the Internet and next delivery with FedEx and UPS.  Doing that requires some imagination and modelling of the world outside the one they see.   I see the active suppression of this kind of imagination as one of the big problems for people in this situation.

Marcus

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Improve education.
2015 Pisa results.

http://oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/5707/The_PISA_2015_scorecard:_Must_do_better_on_inequality.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=e-mail&utm_campaign=OECD%252BObserver%252Be-Alert%252BIssue%252B114
"These include high-performing education systems, such as Singapore and Macao (China), and low-performers, such as Peru and Colombia". (OCDE; 2017)

"The problem of widening inequality remains striking in developed countries: although Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Hong Kong (China) and Macao (China) achieve high levels of equity in education outcomes, and while equity has improved in the US, poorer students are still three times more likely to be low performers than wealthier students. As for immigrant students, they are more than twice as likely as non-immigrants to be low achievers. In the Czech Republic and France, the impact of socio-economic status on performance is particularly large". (OCDE; 2017)


On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 11:13 AM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com<mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
Wasn't that a recent thread?

Here's a suggestion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW0NguMGIbE

Frank

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Phone (505) 670-9918<tel:(505)%20670-9918>

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