Curious to hear people’s ideas on how education would look in such a world.
For me, I’d like to see it moved away from testing and results based learning.
A stronger focus on physical engagement with things, e.g. learning biology by going out and cataloging wildlife and learning what’s in a local ecosystem before coming together and researching findings and looking for new questions to ask.
Less sitting around at desks being fed information and a greater focus on individual agency in exploring topics of interest.
Not to say there isn’t a time and a place for “high level” stuff where you need to deep dive into books and listen to lectures, but there needs to be a greater balance in methodology.
Kids are curious, so I guess one could work with that. If they are permitted, they will ask a million questions to grown ups when nobody stops them, and can spend hours trying to figure something out.
I would like ‘school’ to be an environment where this can happen safely. Smaller kids might have a more traditional school where several adults supervise them, answer their questions and show them how to do stuff. The school grounds have a library and several different workshops or rooms for different activities. Of course older kids will go out (under supervision when they are younger, alone when they get older) and learn directly from professionals. Professionals might book regular teaching sessions (to avoid too many interruptions during work) as part of their job.
Teacher, noun: Person who has mastered the art of not flinching when a three year old asks “why?”