The problem with education is that existing ways of doing things are very strongly entrenched.
At the school level: teachers are trained, buildings are built, parents rely on kids being at school so they can go out to work....
At higher levels and in training it might be easier to change things, but IMO it is school level education that is the most important for most people and the one that can be improved the most (and the request for startups reflects that).
I can think of lots of ways things can be done better. I have done quite a lot of them as a home educating parent. As far as I can see my government (in the UK) is determined to do the exact opposite of the direction I think we should go in.
> The problem with education is that existing ways of doing things are very strongly entrenched.
Which is still a problem of educating humans. Just moved up the chain one step. Educators are often very hard to educate.
Even mathematics isn't immune to this. Calculus is pervasively taught with prematurely truncated algebra of differentials. Which means for second order derivatives and beyond, the "fraction" notation does not actually describe ratios, when this does not need to be the case.
But when will textbooks remove this unnecessary and complicating disconnect between algebra and calculus? There is no significant movement to do so.
Educators and textbook writers are as difficult to educate as anyone else.
At the school level: teachers are trained, buildings are built, parents rely on kids being at school so they can go out to work....
At higher levels and in training it might be easier to change things, but IMO it is school level education that is the most important for most people and the one that can be improved the most (and the request for startups reflects that).
I can think of lots of ways things can be done better. I have done quite a lot of them as a home educating parent. As far as I can see my government (in the UK) is determined to do the exact opposite of the direction I think we should go in.