Equality of Opportunity vs Equality of Outcome
It’s Education Reform Month — Your #1 Newsletter for Accelerated Learning
A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom
-Milton Friedman
What Happens When Everyone is Finally “Equal”
Harrison Bergeron — A Story by Kurt Vonnegut
In case you haven’t heard, it’s Education Reform month here at The Mission! Our goals this month are to:
- Expose Education’s sins
- Answer your questions about Education
- Provide you with the very best resources to accelerate your own learning
- Publish thought provoking content about the current state of, and potentional future of, our systems
This article falls into that final category.
Here is an interesting short story that takes a look at what happens when people mistakenly pursue equality of outcome instead of trying to equalize equality of opportunity.
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Mid-Week Motivation…
The Internet is a reflection of us, and we don’t like what we see — The Internet can be a nasty place ruled by ad clicks and home to shallow content. But how do we fix this? Rob Howard proposes that in order to change the Internet, we must first change the way we engange with the world.
Three Strategies to Power Your Self-Directed Learning — “The most important skill for a young person today is learning quickly and effectively. Since the Great Recession, nobody buys the false impression that you can get a credential after studying for four years, land a job, and then have a career with the same core set of skills over your entire life… Economic, information, and technological forces have come together to form an economy where agility commands more value than entrenchment.Those who master this skill become captains of their fate. Those who ignore it are at the mercy of economic and technological forces around them.”
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