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What comes after the Industrial-Education Complex?

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The 20th century Industrial-Education Complex is the single biggest anchor on human ingenuity and freedom in the west. The highest value of this system is compliance. It prepares humans to act as cogs in the vast bureaucracies and factories of the mid-20th century. It was never meant to cultivate the beauty, genius, and freedom of your child[1]. At my previous company, ClassDojo, I discovered something odd: none of the hundreds of teachers, parents, principals, and district administrators I spoke with stand with the system. They were the system, yet did not support it. The biggest obstacle to progress is mere inertia. But change is finally afoot. Covid-19 has crammed 10 years of progress into one by a) instantly making online learning mainstream, and b) exposing parents to the methods of standard schooling. When we ask Synthesis families what made them seek us out, the most common answer is "I saw for the first time what my child's normal classes are like." What comes next? Three major

Or, The Great Unbundling The 20th century Industrial-Education Complex is the single biggest anchor on human ingenuity and freedom in the west. The highest value of this system is compliance. It prepares humans to act as cogs in the vast bureaucracies and factories of the mid-20th century. It was never meant to cultivate the beauty, genius, and freedom of your child[1]. At my previous company, ClassDojo, I discovered something odd: none of the hundreds of teachers, parents, principals, and district administrators I spoke with stand with the system. They were the system, yet did not support it.

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