Education

A lot is known about how to educate a child and yet we have quite a lot
of failure in our schools, both public and private. In many attempts the
people involved have tried different things. So, there are systems
thought to be ideal, there is trial and error, there is feedback and
review of attempts, and yet failures persist. Sadly or hopefully, this
is precisely how  we must approach the issue and continue until a better
system is found. A lot of people think it's about funding. Well,
certainly that's part of it. You have to pay for facilities, study
materials, teachers, and related things like feeding kids and busing
them to and from schools. The education process itself poses its own
special issues. Order in the classroom has been an issue and well-fed
children who can focus and learn are problems, but they too seem to be
only tangential to the education process. If all the known problems and
distractions are met, and we have schools like that, there is fairly
good education happening and the failure rate is fairly low. That
doesn't mean the education system is perfect, but that children are
exposed to enough educational material and experiences that most learn
enough to become self-sufficient adults. And that's a big part of the
entire goal.

Would it be enough to focus on those deficiencies and "fix" them? It
would be one of the easier things a governmental entity could do because
their position doesn't let them delve much into the educational process.
The teachers have been educated in colleges to do that work. If there is
a problem with the teacher quality, one would need to look at their
higher education and where it is failing. That too could be improved,
even with no slandering of their skills.

Technologies have changed and the idea of home-schooling with the
Internet as their connection to educational materials and teachers
simply wasn't available until this century. We can use that. There is
modern knowledge of human psychology and how the human mind works which
can be leveraged. There are ways to improve.