Let’s demystify the system of education
Education gives the needed knowledge. In today's alienated society, authorities determine what knowledge is required, leaving society with no choice but to accept it. Today’s authorities have established compulsory education to ensure that students thoroughly accept the established order, their way of thinking, and their values. Such education is alienating. It alienates us from our nature, prevents the development of our abilities, and prevents us from living a normal life.
Alienated societies overestimate education's significance. The best learning comes from practice. When a person likes what they are doing, they quickly learn everything they need to do their work. But we can rarely get the chance to work in what we would like to do because most positions are taken and inaccessible to others. When we cannot express ourselves productively through natural needs such as work, we seek alienated forms of value that degrade us. That is precisely our situation today.
The new system I have proposed introduces an open competition for workers for every job post. The worker who anticipates and offers the highest productivity for the needed work post will get the job. The system will assign workers far greater responsibilities and productivity expectations than is possible today. This ensures that no one will dare to offer productivity they cannot achieve, unlike what politicians regularly do today, for example.
In such a system, work will not be conditioned by education. Education will be treated only as help for work. Firstly, that means school will not be an obligation. Students will take lessons freely, where and when they want. Most students will not attend classes they are not interested in or that do not directly benefit them. In the future, education will focus on teaching students what they need to know.
Schools will be places for students to socialize with teachers and exchange theoretical knowledge and practical experience. The work competition will require professors to be the best experts in their fields. Students’ evaluation of teachers will provide the necessary feedback. I think teachers will stop evaluating students because it won’t be necessary. Once students start working, their clients and customers will assess them. The changes in the education system will be significant and essential.
I think future education will teach students how to help themselves as much as possible. One could assume that the most visited classes will be “do-it-yourself" in all the natural sciences: mechanics, electricity, electronics, feeding, health, and even medicine. I believe that in the future, people will need to acquire basic medical knowledge, similar to what family doctors typically use, so that they can help themselves as much as possible.
The new system will reveal the social sciences to their objective essence, and then we will all become well familiarized with them. Just as all people speak their mother tongue well, regardless of their level of education, all people will become good psychologists, sociologists, lawyers, economists, philosophers, artists, etc., simply because they live in the new system.
Most workplaces today do not require schooling, only a short course. Students will take these courses of their own free will. The students will also create a curriculum for their studies based on their needs and skills. That would be the case even in large, complex, specialized jobs. For example, a student studies rocket science. Soon, they find they do not know enough mathematics to follow the rocket science lectures. Then they postpone rocket science and focus on mathematics until they gain the knowledge needed to return to it. Future education will require the quickest way to acquire the needed knowledge.
Today, for example, an average surgeon needs to educate himself for more than twenty years. What slavery to the bureaucracy! What a loss of time at the cutting edge! I think an average educated person could acquire proficiency in surgery much faster if they cut out everything unnecessary. How to do this? While taking the required lessons, student surgeons will observe surgeries performed by experienced surgeons. When a student finishes the program, they choose a surgical specialty and independently assess whether they can perform an operation. Surgeons will not misjudge their skills because their responsibilities will be much greater than they are today. The patients will not be in danger of being operated on by inexperienced surgeons because they will not dare to operate without supervision. Even when a beginner surgeon feels confident in their surgical abilities, they still need to convince patients of their competence, since patients choose their surgeons independently. A surgeon who makes a big mistake during surgery might lose their patients forever. If a beginner surgeon doesn't feel capable of performing an operation, they could pursue additional education as much as they feel they need.
That’s what demystified education should look like. That is what the future of education would look like.