Greta wrote:I was thinking about that streaming idea. Maybe it is worth finding those with strong and obvious leanings towards being a scholar, artisan, artist, soldier and so forth and give them specialist streams of education? (with sufficient generalist information for "roundedness"). Other students could receive a general stream education unless a strong aptitude emerged.
This is what has historically been done, in a clumsy blunt-instrument kind of way. I'm not sure about Australia, but where I live there was the 11-plus exam near the end of primary/elementary school. If you passed it you went to Grammar School and did Latin, Greek and Philosophy. If you failed it you went to a "Secondary Modern" school and did metalwork and cookery. (This is a caricature, but essentially true.)
In most of the country grammar schools were abandoned in favour of Comprehensives. (I went to a comp.) But there was still an exam and there were classes in the comps are streamed. Funnily enough, in the particular part of the country where I now live Grammar schools still exist and my eldest son goes to one (and does Philosophy. But not Latin, apparently.)
Greta wrote:Then again, this is probably a problem for last century given that jobs are ever more rapidly being automated with increasingly impressive AI. Maybe teach kids to develop a safe relationship with their emerging machine overloads?
Maybe that skill set won't be so very different with the skills required to negotiate good relations with our human overlords? I wonder if we'll have to laugh at our AI overlords' unfunny jokes?