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We may have to revise our education system so that it's not connected to our credential system.

There's a story about Einstein teaching physics and letting the kids who didn't want to be there leave and do something else with the time. The ones who remained were quite attentive.

There are multiple models for teaching that do something similar, let kids approach a subject when they're ready. Yes, they goof off a lot early on, but eventually even STEM and literature call to them, and they pass equivalency exams in their late teens.

In the meantime even when I was in high school in the 1980s, our system was created to sort kids into sports stars that might become college players, STEM kids that might become scientists and engineers, and House Hufflepuff (common laborers).

The education system has only gotten progressively worse since then, as its budget increases have not kept up with inflation. And then there's the whole effort to insert evangelist Christianity (+ American Exceptionalism + Conservativism--Capitalism) into public school.

And to this day, we still use the lecture / lab / test model that excludes a lot of alternative comprehension and learning models. We're not looking to teach kids, rather we're looking to harvest the geniuses, and turn the others into bonded laborers and soldiers for billionaire vanity projects.