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- The value of outstanding loans of students in England at the end of March 2019 reached £121 billion
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sari added 3y ago
- The percentage of top-performing students in reading and Maths decreased despite the large increases in funding in education in Australia
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sari added 3y ago
- These numbers don’t just illustrate that the belief is global. They also show how we’re NOT allocating enough resources to question the limitations of our age-based, one-way, centralized education system.
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sari added 3y ago
- Stress-related to education is the top cause of suicides among children in Korea
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sari added 3y ago
- “The schoolhouse I envision would be very different [from the conventional schools] in this regard. Because I would stress the connections and the continuity among concepts, there would be no brick walls between one “subject” and the next. Since learning would be self-paced and self-motivated, there would be no ticking clock telling students when t... See more
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sari added 3y ago
- $1.6 trillion of student loan debt in the US in 2019
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sari added 3y ago
- “Today [the education system] retains throw-back elements from pre-industrial society. Yet the whole idea of assembling masses of students (raw material) to be processed by teachers (workers) in a centrally located school (factory) was a stroke of industrial genius.” — Alvin Toffler in the Future Shock
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sari added 3y ago
- As much as we criticize the current system, we work hard to succeed to acquire the status it unlocks. Status is one of the main reasons why degrees from a handful of selective top-branded universities, which are only accessible after students have gone through at least 12 years of the factory-model education, still attract the majority of the stude... See more
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sari added 3y ago
- “We’re so hung up on the challenges of running the massive education system and failing to pinpoint the problem.”
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