<aside> ⚠️ Dilettante Alert: I have no actual expertise in this area and others have probably thought about it a lot more than me; there may be good reasons why the below has not happened.

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• Too specific with irrelevant focus: calculus, geometry not important to most people
• Simultaneously not teaching general life skills: teamwork
  • See Plato section

Great Thinkers

• School of Life concept that humanities institutions (museums, universities) should be structured thematically rather than say by nationality or chronology of artists
• Or preparation for particular facets of life, personal finance, media bias, etc - more stats less calculus
• Preparation for working with machines; “computational thinking”, creative project-based learning

Changing Jobs: The fair go in the new machine age

Thread: Schools should look more like YC

• Thematic social history, how society works, rather than names-and-dates (some of this has already happened but still tend to zoom in on particular eras too much rather than broad sweeps)

Industrial literacy