Education, Is It a Good Idea?

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In the university system is what may be a thousand years old. It's for education, as we've mentioned, that at a market value, can be delivered for next to nothing. And i'm just struggling to see how a model from k 12 all the way up to post secondary, that's based on a mediaeval concept of education,. i'm struggling to see how that out compets a the muk. So that i find that ap head ofa the anti version of what i see education's purposeb.

Michael Shermer speaks with Chris Edwards about educational reform, his study and teaching of world history, the problems in K–12 education, the zip-code model vs. the seat time model of education and how they result in massively different educational outcomes, how “no child left behind” left children behind, federal vs. state educational systems, cheating scandals and what to do about them, the future of education in a world of free (or nearly free) online learning, comparing the U.S. educational system to other countries. Shermer and Edwards also discuss thought experiments, based on Edwards’ latest book, Thought Experiments: History and Applications for Education.