Education
Western Education Has Collapsed, and No One Wants to Admit It
Information is abundant, but ambition isn’t.
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11 min readNov 2, 2022
Since the last 2 weeks, there hasn’t been a day when Medium missed to suggest me one of these stories:
- I don’t want to be a teacher anymore
- Why education is so costly in America
- Teachers are underpaid
- Teachers are quitting because of unruly students
Another, the less frequent headline I observe is a variation of one of the following:
- How smartphones are ruining the childhood/education/future generations
- Why parents fail to discipline children
- Why teachers aren’t empowered enough to handle children
- Is schooling/mainstream education truly worth it?
To the best of my memory, these are real stories as witnessed in the United States or Europe. These developed nations are the founding cornerstones of modern democracy, not just the citadels of high-quality education.
I do not talk about Eastern education, because western models have altered education across the globe. Even the measurements to judge the best belong to them.
